Your professor stated that stress can lead to heart disease. She cited several medical studies to show that stress was linked to heart disease. Therefore, she said we should avoid all forms of stress in order to ensure living a long and healthy life. The professor needs to rethink advice based on which of the following features of critical thinking?
a. avoiding oversimplification
b. considering alternative explanations c. confusing correlation with causation d. avoiding overgeneralization
e. all of the above
e
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For Skinner, “mental events” are:
a. certain bodily processes to which we have assigned verbal labels b. important determinants of behavior c. nonphysical entities d. modified by reinforcement contingencies just like physical events were
Henry was adopted and is genetically predisposed toward alcoholism. However, his adoptive family does not drink; they actively avoid alcohol for religious reasons. Given Henry's genetic potential
he will most certainly become an alcoholic later in life. he may drink without worry as an adult because of his early upbringing. alcoholism might not appear in Henry's phenotype. alcoholism may alter his genotype.
The default network is also called the ______ network.
a. central executive b. dorsal attention c. salience d. intrinsic
Which of the following best describes informed consent within scientific research?
a. Subjects must be told the true purpose of the study and the reason for any deception that may have been part of the study. b. Personal information will not be shared with anyone outside the immediate research group and any results from the research will not identify any of the participants by name. c. Subjects are told what the purposes of the study are, what participation in the study involves, what risks (if any) are involved in participating, and what the person can expect to receive in return for participation. d. They are usually comprised of people who have research experience themselves and therefore have experience that enables them to judge whether the research being proposed follows reasonable ethical guidelines.