As a cognitive researcher, you determine that, just like us, primates quickly recognize certain classes of threats in their environment and can act quickly and accordingly. This kind of finding would be most in line with which cognitive paradigm?
a. information-processing
b. connectionist
c. ecological
d. evolutionary
d. evolutionary
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a. duty to warn c. right to refuse treatment b. commitment based on dangerousness d. least restrictive form of treatment
Suppose a researcher investigated the judgments of guilt made by jurors in response to attractiveness (attractive vs unattractive) and facial expression (neutral vs smiling). The results indicated a main effect for attractiveness as your only significant finding. This would mean that
a. Attractiveness alone was responsible for juror guilt decisions b. Facial expression alone was responsible for juror guilt decisions c. Both attractiveness and facial expression was responsible for juror guilt decisions d. Nothing; You can never believe main effects in a factorial experiment
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a. the stimulus consists of letters rather than numbers. b. most of his customers will be investors. c. it consists of only two chunks of information that are meaningfully related to his business. d. auditory encoding is more easily accomplished when the visual stimulus consists of letters rather than numbers.