62. Which of the following stereotype is supported by the widely-held belief that all men have more math ability than all women?
a) men are genetically more intelligent than women
b) men thrive more effectively in higher-education settings than women
c) men are more powerful than women
d) men develop a larger right cerebral hemisphere than women
c
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A heuristic approach to problem solving may be described by which of the following?
a. a more fully developed algorithmic approach b. involves strategies which eliminate and select among alternatives c. responsible for the overwhelming success in competition between early chess programs over Chess Masters d. makes use of sheer brute force in consideration of alternatives
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a) emotions. b) incentives. c) learned responses. d) instincts.
Freud, who believed that dreams are "the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious," would probably have disagreed with the activation-synthesis hypothesis because
A. he was a chronic insomniac. B. he did not do sleep research and record brain waves. C. he did not focus on dreams as physiological events. D. his patients could remember dreams only under hypnosis.