In recalling Canadian prime ministers, Channing can list the first four prime ministers and the last four prime ministers but cannot remember many of the prime ministers in between. This BEST illustrates the _____ effect.
A) recency
B) primacy
C) ordinal position
D) serial position
` D) serial position
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In the context of the problem of other minds, recent research suggests that:
A) the brain directs the mind. B) zombies do exist. C) the mind interfaces with the brain via the spinal cord. D) the mind directs the brain to perform the action.
If you theorize that people who are genetically related are attracted to one another the way masses are attracted by gravity, you have suggested a(n)
A) descriptive theory. B) quantitative theory. C) analogical theory. D) empirically irrefutable fact.
For the following set of scores, calculate the mean, median and mode:
10, 12, 9, 10, 10. What will be an ideal response?
Which of the following outcomes strongly supports the notion that a place code is involved in detecting medium to high-pitched sounds?
a. Antibiotics can kill hair cells in a basal to apical direction and produce corresponding deficits in pitch perception. b. Damage to the posterior temporal cortex impairs hearing. c. Mutant mice that lack inner hair cells are unable to hear. d. Overgrowth of bone over the round window impairs the hearing of high- but not low-pitched sounds. e. Antibiotics can degenerate hair cells in an apical to basal direction and produce corresponding deficits in intensity perception.