Placing both hands at the side of one's head and pointing upward with the forefingers signals that one is angry in some cultures (such as Japan); in others, however, it refers to the devil; and in others it means that one wants sex. This is an example of _____

a) paralinguistic cues
b) emblematic gestures
c) proxemics
d) phonemes


b

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A researcher investigated whether a person's mood influences another person's mood. The researcher divided the participants into three groups. Participants in the first group interacted with a happy person. Participants in the second group interacted with a sad person. Participants in the third group interacted with an emotionally neutral person. After the interaction, the researcher measured how

happy the participants were. What are the conditions of the independent variable in this study? What will be an ideal response?

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Our kinesthetic sense gathers its primary information from ____, whereas our vestibular sense gathers its primary information from ____

a. ?the olfactory bulb; the basilar membrane b. ?muscles; semicircular canals c. ?the inner ear; the skin d. ?the tongue; the eyes

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Basic speech sounds can be combined into meaningful units known as

A. heuristics. B. vocabulary. C. morphemes. D. phonemes.

Psychology

In an experiment, people that experienced a pleasant smell of lavender rated their experimenter more highly than people that experienced an unpleasant odor of sulfur. This is an example of:

A-A procedural memory B-The episodic buffer C-The phonological loop D-A declarative memory E-Priming

Psychology