Alex loves baseball and especially his hometown team. As a matter of fact, he knows all of the statistics for each player and can often accurately predict which pitch a pitcher will throw to a specific batter and which pitches a batter will tend to miss. Alex is using his knowledge of baseball and his past experiences to perceive new information at each game. Alex is relying on _____________________ .

A. analysis processing

B. motivational processing

C. bottom-up processing

D. top-down processing


D. top-down processing

Psychology

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Which of the following is sometimes called a "before-after design?"

A. preexperiment B. one-shot case study C. one-group pretest-posttest D. posttest-only control group

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The _____ receives the signal for hunger.

A) thalamus B) hippocampus C) hypothalamus D) cerebellum

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José was about to introduce his girlfriend Natalia to a friend—but, all of a sudden, he could not remember his friend's name. This is known as:

A) a transient state. B) a memory misattribution. C) a tip-of-the-tongue experience. D) retrograde amnesia.

Psychology

One major difference between striated and smooth muscles is that a. smooth muscles move the voluntary system and striated muscles move automatic systems

b. striated muscles are responsible for fast twitch and smooth muscles are responsible for slow twitch. c. striated muscles move mostly voluntary systems while smooth muscles move involuntary, automatic systems. d. smooth muscles are made up of myofibrils and striated muscle is made up of only sarcomeres.

Psychology