Alice is walking home from school when she notices a change in the weather coming. She hears thunder in the distance, sees lightning and dark clouds approaching, feels the wet breeze of an approaching storm,
and even smells the difference in the wind from
the storm. Alice is able to organize all of these sensory cues into a meaningful idea due to her powers of ______.
a. sensation c. intuition
b. sensory acuity d. perception
D
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a. insight b. rote c. understanding d. the use of heuristics
You asked 50 college students how many pets they own. What is NOT a possible score for a range for this study?
A. 0 B. 0.5 C. 5 D. 13
During saccadic eye movements,
a. we can control the speed with which our eyes move. b. the eyes move as fast as they can. c. the eyes stop to rest for periods of up to one-half second. d. we track changes in the position of moving objects. e. the eyes move in a smooth, fast motion to follow moving objects.
Which of the following best describes the firing of a neuron (action potential)?
a) a change in axonal membrane permeability facilitating an inflow of positive ions b) an electrical current initiated in the cell body which flows the length of the axon c) the opening of ion channels, promoting a negative charge within the axonal membrane d) the transmission of neuronal impulses across the synaptic cleft