Which of the following is an example of secondary aging?
A) a decrease in the maximum heart rate
B) farsightedness from a stiffening lens
C) heart disease from smoking cigarettes
D) lack of menstruation after menopause
Answer: C) heart disease from smoking cigarettes
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a. The Spearman correlation c. The phi coefficient b. The point-biserial correlation d. It is still called a Pearson correlation.
"I adore the girl next door." This phrase refers to what rule of attraction?
a) saturation effect b) proximity c) birds-of-a-feather effect d) foot-in-the-door effect
Beck, Muggleton, Walsh, and Lavie (2006) used transcranial magnetic stimulation to examine change blindness. They tried various combinations of inhibiting the parietal lobes of participants while those participants were doing a change-blindness task. They found that ______.
A. interrupting the function of the left parietal lobe increased change blindness B. activation of both the right and left parietal lobe decreased change blindness C. activation of both the right and left parietal lobe increased change blindness D. interrupting the function of the right parietal lobe increased change blindness
According to John Holland's Vocational Preference Inventory, which of the following types of people are best suited for farming?
A. Investigative people B. Socially oriented people C. Artistic people D. Realistic people