Johnston-Laird reports that people's performance on the Wason card task can be greatly improved by __________
a. using Venn diagrams
b. seeking disconfirmation
c. making the situation concrete
d. casting a more appropriate frame via headers
Answer: c
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b. whether she is eating junk foods c. whether eating gets to be out of her control. d. the situations under which she eats a great deal.
A man who had delusions and hallucinations that told him to kill his parents is found not guilty by reason of insanity because, at the time of the crime, he did not know right from wrong. This insanity verdict ____
a. is no longer possible in the United States b. is contradictory to the American Law Institute code c. illustrates the irresistible impulse idea d. illustrates the M'Naghten Rule
John Stuart Mill's concept of ____ emancipated associationistic psychology from the strict mental mechanics proposed by James Mill and others.
a. free will b. imagination c. mental chemistry d. utilitarianism
Some people suffer from a form of amnesia in which they cannot learn new information
Their most recent memories seem to be only those that occurred prior to the onset of the amnesia. These people are likely to have sustained damage to a. thalamus. b. amygdala c. hippocampus. d. corpus callosum. e. hypothalamus.