The jerky movements when we send our eyes from one location to another are called __________
Fill in the blank with the appropriate word.
SACCADES
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Vanessa has an important presentation coming up at work, but she fears that she will do a poor job. The week before the presentation, she claims that she is feeling under the weather; she leaves work early almost every day and barely practices her presentation at all. Even though she may not realize what she is doing, Vanessa is setting herself up so that she will have an "excuse" in case the
presentation does not go well. Social psychologists refer to this pattern of behavior as ____. a. self-regulation b. the self-reference effect c. overjustification d. self-handicapping
According to the research and discussion about source monitoring,
a. government agencies, corporations, and the media sometimes make source-monitoring errors. b. source-monitoring errors are generally easy to correct. c. people are almost always accurate in recognizing which ideas from an earlier session were actually their own. d. source monitoring occurs fairly often for visual information, but only rarely for auditory information.
Inactive substances similar to the experimental drugs given to test the power of expectations are called:
a. controls c. placebos b. distracters d. dependent variables
What was a goal of St. Thomas Aquinas?
a. To convert a large number of Aristotelians to Christianity b. To demonstrate that Christianity existed in accord with other religions c. To Apply the scientific method in solving theological problems d. To strengthen the position of the church through reason