A person magically transported from the early 1800s to the present day, on seeing an airplane in flight, likely would
a. not be able to think about it until he or she was given a word for the airplane.
b. be completely unable to form any thoughts about it.
c. refuse to admit seeing it out of fear.
d. think about it and call it a flying vehicle or airship.
D
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While many modern offices make use of open shared spaces (rather than cubicles or offices), this office style can hinder productivity. Indeed, this office style is likely to be particularly detrimental for employees who work on ____
a. simple tasks that they have performed many times b. simple but novel tasks c. complex tasks that they have performed many times d. complex, novel tasks
Many textbooks (though not this one) advocate testing the mean of a sample against a hypothesized population mean by using z even if the population standard deviation is not known, so long as the sample size exceeds 30. Those books recommend this because
a. they don't know any better. b. there are not tables for t for more than 30 degrees of freedom. c. the difference between t and z is small for that many cases. d. t and z are exactly the same for that many cases.
In which section of the research report did Dr. Trenton list the specific procedures he used to gather evidence to test his hypothesis?
a. discussion b. introduction c. method d. results
The distinction between semantic and procedural memory is the difference between
a. when it happened and where it happened. b. what it was and how one did it. c. how it happened and why it happened. d. how it was done and what it was