Sophia, mother of one-year-old Peter, has heard about the Mozart effect and decides to find out more about it before she invests in buying CDs of all of Mozart's works. Based on her research, she discovers all of the following are true except
a. the Mozart effect lasts for only about 10 minutes
b. the same effects that were found with college students apply to preschoolers
c. musical training appears to boost performance on spatial-temporal tasks
d. it is not clear whether music instruction affects certain cognitive abilities because music has unique experiential properties or whether music instruction supports the development of cognitive abilities such as attention, concentration, and memorization
B
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A. sympathetic B. somatic C. parasympathetic D. autonomic
Gustav Fechner defined an absolute threshold as:
A. the intensity level that a person detects 50% of the time B. the amount of stimulus energy needed to develop a perception C. an increase or decrease in the intensity of stimuli D. the smallest amount of stimulus energy that can be observed or experienced
Which of the following is true in the spinal cord?
A. The white matter consists of sensory tracts, while the gray matter consists of motor tracts. B. The gray matter consists of both sensory and motor tracts. C. The white matter consists of motor tracts, while the gray matter consists of sensory tracts. D. The white matter consists of both sensory and motor tracts.
Rapid movements of the eye that allow the eye to inspect an object are called
a. saccades. c. vergence. b. smooth visual pursuit. d. accommodation.