Amanda is trying to focus on what her psychology professor is saying, but her mind keeps wandering to other things, like the fact that the lecture hall is cold, her seat is hard, there is a message on her cell phone to check, and whether or not Kevin is going to be at the party tonight. This illustrates the _____ of consciousness.

A) intentionality
B) unity
C) transience
D) selectivity


C) transience

Psychology

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Without the process of replication as part of the scientific process, what would happen?

A) Incorrect results would often go uncorrected. B) Demand characteristics would have larger effect on data. C) The Hawthorne effect would increase. D) Samples would be less representative of the populations they came from.

Psychology

Baby Dionne is playing in her crib and reaches to pull back a blanket that is partially covering the teddy bear that she wants to play with. Piaget would say that this is an example of the

a) secondary circular reactions. b) first habits and primary circular reactions. c) coordination of secondary circular reactions. d) tertiary circular reactions.

Psychology

What parts of the brain are implicated in the operation of inhibition of return?

a. the superior colliculus and the parietal lobe b. the corpus collosum and the hypothalamus c. the tegmentum and the trigeminal nerve d. the temporal lobe and the thalamus

Psychology

_______________ is a partial agonist for the ยต opiate receptor that blocks the effects of opiates without producing a strong opiate effect

a. Methadone b. Buprenorphine c. An SSRI d. An SNRI

Psychology