Which of the following statements refers to a widely held scientific belief in the 1950s?
A. The brain was relatively inactive during sleep.
B. Dreams occurred in the passive state of sleep.
C. Dreaming happened in the inactive stage of sleep.
D. The brain was active throughout sleep.
Answer: A
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Suppose two people experience the same stressful events, and as a result of the experience, one person develops an affective disorder while the second person shows no ill effects. The diathesis-stress model would most likely explain this by saying that the
a. person who developed the disorder was older than the other person. b. disordered person must be female and the other person must be male. c. two people had different predispositions for the disorder and had likely experienced different levels of stress during past encounters with similar stimuli. d. person who developed the disorder had a gene that guaranteed the disorder would develop at some point (even without any stress).
Which of the following students provides the most accurate statement about the research on mental imagery?
a. Susan: "There is a negative correlation between the size of a mental rotation and the number of seconds required to perform that mental rotation." b. Shirin: "When people make judgments about the shapes of U.S. states, their judgments for mental images are similar to their judgments for physical stimuli." c. Dirk: "In general, the research on mental imagery supports the propositional perspective on mental imagery, rather than the analog perspective." d. Cyndi: "People make judgments about complex mental shapes in roughly the same way as they make judgments about complex physical shapes; but this similarity doesn't hold true for simple mental shapes."
The perspective that explains learning as a mental expectancy of an upcoming association between two events is known as the __________ view
Fill in the blank(s) with correct word
It is possible to find a large effect that is not statistically significant because
a. There were too few subjects in the study b. The researchers used a within-subjects design c. The researchers used an enormous number of subjects d. The researchers used a between-groups study