A dealer persuades a customer to buy a new car by reducing the price to well below that of his competitors. Once the customer has agreed to buy the car,
the terms of the sale are shifted, by lowering the value of the trade-in and requiring the purchase of expensive extra equipment. Now the car costs well above the current market rate. This is an example of the ______ procedure.
a. lowball
b. primacy
c. foot-in-the-door
d. bait and switch
A
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Negative symptoms in schizophrenia include
a. behavioral deficits such as flattened emotion, apathy, and poverty of speech. b. behavioral excesses such as hallucinations, delusions, and bizarre behavior. c. antisocial behaviors such as violence and rage reactions. d. dissociative behaviors and the emergence of multiple personalities.
Combining the monozygotic twin and adoption studies, researchers often study identical twins raised in different families. This method helps researchers determine a. the effects of adoption on a child's gene expression
b. the effects of adoption on a child's personality. c. the effect of environment without the confound of shared genes. d. the effects of genes without the confound of shared environments.
One explanation for the extraordinary performances of people with savant syndrome is that an area of the brain is damaged, freeing the person from the "distractions" of language, concepts, and higher-level thoughts. This area of the brain that is theorized to be damaged in persons with savant syndrome is the
a. left hemisphere. b. right hemisphere. c. corpus callosum. d. reticular formation.
Which of the following best describes language processing in the brain?
A) Language requires a variety of brain regions, including structures involved in movement control and memory. B) Language function is limited to two regions of the brain: Broca's area and Wernicke's area. C) Language processing is located entirely within the brainstem. D) Scientists have not identified specific regions of the brain involved in language.