If the sound of a crying infant causes heightened activity in a woman’s amygdala, this indicates that . . .
a. The woman experiences the sounds of a crying infant as highly aversive
b. The excessive excitability of the amygdala might cause her to respond inconsistently to her infant
c. She might become so distressed that she cannot think clearly about how to alleviate her infant’s distress
d. All of the above
d. All of the above
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The term ____ refers to mental processes that we use to be creative, to form concepts, and to solve problems.
A. information processing B. remembering C. cognitive D. linguistic
If you favor the general mechanism approach to speech perception, you would argue that
a. people process speech sounds the same way that they process other kinds of sounds. b. humans have a special phonetic module that handles all general speech perception tasks. c. the McGurk effect does not support the general mechanism approach, but most other research supports this approach. d. people use categorical perception when listening to a language sound; they do not use categorical perception on other cognitive tasks.
In signal detection theory, a liberal decision policy means the criterion will be set to the ________, and a conservative decision policy means the criterion will be set to the ___________
a. left; right b. right; left c. right; right d. left; left
Vicki, an animal trainer, needs to train a bear to dance for a role in a Hollywood movie. Which technique will Vicki most likely use to accomplish this task?
a. ?social learning b. ?shaping c. ?modeling d. ?classical conditioning