During the 1950s and 1960s, creative new ways of measuring mental processes paved the way for the cognitive revolution. The development of new research methods helps to illustrate which of your text's unifying themes?
a. Our experience of the world is highly subjective.
b. Psychology is theoretically diverse.
c. Psychology is empirical.
d. Behavior is determined by multiple causes.
C
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Based on the research conducted by Hubel and Wiesel, you should infer that when an individual looks at a vertical line and then looks at a horizontal line, he or she will probably activate different:
a. feature detectors b. channels within the thalamus c. sensory thresholds d. lobes in the cerebral cortex
Which of the following is not evidence indicating that the relationship between school achievement and IQ may be a two-way street?
a. There is a small but significant drop in children's IQs over summer vacation. b. Children who start school late have lower IQs than children who start school on schedule. c. Average IQ scores get higher with age. d. There is a strong, positive correlation between years of education and IQ.
Linda is always falling asleep suddenly and irresistibly. Which of the following statements is NOT true about her condition?
a. It is called narcolepsy. b. This condition usually runs in families. c. The sleep attacks may last about 15 minutes. d. A person awakens feeling absolutely exhausted.
Evidence that confirmation bias is not just a laboratory phenomenon comes from
(a) the episode with Mrs. Keech (b) Heaven's Gate (c) the Bay of Pigs fiasco (d) the statement by Jefferson Davis (e) all of the above