The cocktail-party phenomenon refers to your ability to "focus on" a specific conversation at a cocktail party while
A) drunk out of your mind.
B) unconsciously monitoring other conversations.
C) being totally conscious of other conversations.
D) talking to someone else.
E) eating.
Answer: B
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a. moving mental patients from the prisons into mental hospitals b. the dramatic increase in the number of mental patients during the 1950s c. offering low-cost mental health care to a community d. releasing mental patients from mental hospitals and returning them to the community
Wanda, age 77, has difficulty shopping for and preparing her food and paying her bills. Wanda needs help with
A) instrumental activities of daily living. B) primary activities of active functioning. C) activities of daily living. D) secondary activities of active functioning.
According to the article Please Don't Depend on Me about nursing home residents, the effect size for the differences between resident's dependent and independent behaviors was:
(a) .11 (b) .39 (c) .78 (d) .95
Teenagers who _____ are less likely to initiate sexual activity at an early age.
A. have close relationships with their parents B. face trouble communicating with their parents C. have sexually active peers D. experience precocious puberty and have older friends