According to one theory of color vision, colors are signaled in pairs by neurons that fire faster to one color and slower to another color. This theory is known as the:
a. opponent-process theory
b. trichromatic theory
c. akinetopsia theory
d. geon theory
A
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A. They are well taken care of through government assistance programs. B. They are well taken care of by their families. C. They tend to be undereducated and underemployed. D. They are economically better off than nondisabled Americans.
A relatively new field of research, defined as "the analysis of the human mind as a collection of evolved mechanisms, the contexts that activate those mechanisms and the behavior generated by those mechanisms" is known as:
a. cognitive neuroscience b. evolutionary psychology c. biological psychology d. positive psychology
A study that reviewed literature on the content of lies reported that, when compared to people who tell the truth, liars
a. provide fewer details in their accounts. b. provide exact details in their accounts. c. provide more details in their accounts. d. resort to confabulation.
Jamal is trying to buy something over the phone. He asks his partner to read him his credit card number. However, when he tries to repeat it to the sales clerk on the other end of the line, he can't remember all the numbers. Jamal is coming up against __________.
a) the decay of numerical memory b) the extinction of auditory traces c) George Miller's magic number 7, plus or minus 2 d) the limits of procedural memory