What are mental categories representing objects, ideas, or experiences that share some common characteristics?
a. classes
b. concepts
c. attributes
d. classifications
e. prototypes
b. concepts
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When driving at night, an elderly person may have trouble seeing well when exiting a lighted freeway onto an unlighted road. The most likely cause of this trouble involves
a. reduced sensory thresholds. b. presbycusis. c. slower dark adaptation abilities. d. trouble with near vision.
Kant and Helmholtz agreed that:
a. the faculties of the mind are innate. b. the perceiver transforms what the senses provide. c. perception is explained by unconscious inference. d. nativism provides a better explanation of perception than does empiricism.
According to the network model, all of our activated knowledge is in which aspect of our memory?
A) sensory register B) short-term memory C) working memory D) long-term memory
The key property of addictive drugs relates to
A) their ability to inhibit dopamine in brain. B) the withdrawal that follows termination of the drug. C) their reinforcing effects. D) their capacity to produce tolerance. E) their ability to rapidly produce physical dependence.