When someone witnesses a crime in which a gun was involved, her or his description of the perpetrator's appearance can be flawed. This is often due to __________, a psychological process demonstrated in many experiments.
a. forced testimony
b. weapon focus
c. segmentation
d. sequentializing
b. weapon focus
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Your partner who is under the influence of alcohol may act more sexually aggressive than normal because ____
a. ?alcohol increases sexual arousal b. ?your partner is likely experiencing the effects of Korsakoff’s syndrome c. ?of the hallucinogenic effects of alcohol d. ?alcohol causes us to shed our inhibitions about things we normally would not do
While on vacation, twelve years ago, Benjamin became extremely ill when he ate some shrimp. The fact that he cannot eat shrimp to this day is a classic example of
a. taste conditioning. c. taste associations. b. taste aversion. d. predicted taste conditioning.
Aaron has the ability to cross his eyes, so that both of them move close to his nose. His friends find this to be very unusual, and he often does it just to creep them out! Knowing what you know about depth perception, you might assume that Aaron's ability to move his eyes like this gives him better depth perception due to the process of
A. ocular accommodation. B. retinal disparity. C. eye convergence. D. motion parallax
According to the chapter Behavioral Treatment to Change Vocalization Patterns in a Person with
Schizophrenia, in the therapy phase of the study, the baseline condition involved _____________ for bizarre vocalizations and the therapeutic condition involved _____________ for bizarre vocalizations. (a) positive punishment; positive punishment (b) positive punishment; negative punishment (c) negative punishment; positive punishment (d) negative punishment; negative punishment