You are listening to some quiet music when some people outside play some heavy metal music on their car stereo. At first you are annoyed and upset, but then you tune out the heavy metal music and begin again to enjoy the quiet music you are listening to. Then the stereo begins to play a country song and you become annoyed and upset again. This is an example of ______.
A. sensitization
B. habituation
C. dishabituation
D. a reduced A state
C. dishabituation
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A. Unlimited Storage in Short-Term Memory B. Short-Term Memory: Holding Seven Items C. Processing Information from the Senses: Short-Term Memory D. Iconic Memory in Short-Term Memory
The strongest evidence for a critical period for human language development is the ____.
A. exceptional language abilities of children with Williams syndrome B. different lateralization of first language and second language C. differences in language between Broca's aphasia and Wernicke's aphasia D. difficulty deaf children have learning sign language if they start late
Using Tanner's stages of pubertal development, identify a change that takes place in stage 4 for girls and one that takes place for boys in stage 3
What will be an ideal response?
Over the last 50 years the average number of sexual partners that women have had by age 24 has:
A. more than tripled. B. remained almost constant. C. almost doubled. D. increased fourfold.