Aki is from Japan. What goals would his parents most likely want him to achieve by attending preschool?
a. social skills
b. academic skills
c. motor skills
d. emotional skills
A. Japanese parents, like European parents want their children to gain social skills in preschool.
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How do modern psychologists approach the nature-versus-nurture question?
A. They feel that both are important to understanding behavior. B. They feel that environment is more important than heredity in understanding behavior. C. They feel that heredity is more important than environment in understanding behavior. D. They feel that environment plays no role in shaping behavior.
In a study that focused on taxi drivers in London, England, who must learn the names and locations of tens of thousands of streets in order to earn their licenses, the experienced cabbies exhibited superior memory for street information with the parts of their brains responsible for processing this learning being
a. enlarged. b. lateralized. c. more myelinated. d. all of these.
When a psychologist is discussing a heuristic, he or she is referring to
A) biased information processing strategies. B) a mental shortcut or rule of thumb. C) a mental technique to improve memory recall. D) a mental technique to increase deliberation in our decision making.
Ganglion receptive fields can be found that show which of the following antagonistic center-surround organizations?
A. blue-green and yellow-red B. blue-yellow and green-red C. blue-red and yellow-green D. blue-yellow-red and green-violet