While you are posing for a picture, the camera’s flash goes off and you feel a momentary sense of pain in your eyes. This is most likely a result of ____.?
a. ?the sudden breakdown of large amounts of photopigments
b. ?a relatively common example of synesthesia in which light is transduced as touch
c. ?a large increase in the speed of the action potentials being fired
d. ?rods, cones, horizontal, bipolar, amacrine, and ganglion cells firing all at the same time
ANSWER:
a
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c. Jurors usually think that false confessions result from certain personality characteristics, such as passivity orlack of education. d. Few people think that they themselves would ever admit to a crime they did not commit.
You are trying to guess the symbols of the Zener cards as they are turned up from a shuffled deck. You are taking the typical test for
a. clairvoyance. b. telepathy. c. mediumship. d. psychokinesis.
__________ is usually credited with establishing the first formal psychological laboratory in Europe. __________ established a psychological laboratory in America during the same decade
a. Wundt; Rogers b. James; Skinner c. Wundt; James d. Freud; James
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a) $150,000 b) $235,000 c) $100,000 d) $300,000