According to your textbook authors, all but WHICH of the following are characteristics of learning?

a) Learning takes many forms.
b) Learning can be reflexive.
c) Learning is critical to survival.
d) Learning is permanent.


ANS: D, Learning is defined by your authors as a "relatively" permanent change. It is not a permanent event.

Psychology

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A. enter the resting state B. release a neurotransmitter C. change its threshold D. experience an action potential

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Scientific method always begins with:

a. generation of a hypothesis b. clairvoyance c. observation d. detection of regularities

Psychology

In the young woman/old woman illustration in your textbook, the effect of seeing either the picture of the "old woman" or the picture of the "young woman" first will lead a person to respond in a particular way to the third picture in which both an "old and a "young" woman can be seen. Seeing the first picture of either the "old" or the "young" woman created which of the following?

a. stereoscopic vision b. habituation c. psychological closure d. perceptual expectancy

Psychology

In the US, parents train their young children to

a. suppress some emotions and express others. b. suppress all emotions regardless of type. c. express all emotions intensely, "letting it all hang out.". d. imitate the emotions expressed by family pets.

Psychology