Which of the following parts of the body would have the largest area represented on the primary somatosensory area?
a. foot
b. torso
c. arm
d. hand
ANSWER: d
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a. Crowd crystals are more likely to be present in queues than in crowds. b. Crowds, unlike most other types of groups, are unique in that they have no structure. c. A crowd of five people is unlikely to draw people to it; ten or more individuals are needed to trigger the crowd formation process. d. Every crowd is so unique that they can be studied only using case study methods. e. Members of crowds are united by their shared focus on attention.
Emil's friend asks how well Emil gets along with his younger brother. Emil thinks about how irritating his younger brother was yesterday, and the big fight they had as a result, and tells his friend that he doesn't get along with his brother at all. In this instance, Emil's response is consistent with:
a. a framing effect b. functional fixedness c. the representativeness heuristic d. the availability heuristic
Perceptions differ from sensations in that:
a. perceptions depend as much on prior experience as they do on neural cues traveling between receptors and the brain. b. perceptions are purely psychological, whereas sensations are purely neural. c. each sensation is actually a large set of perceptions. d. sensations depend mostly on learning, whereas perceptions are innate processes.
An advantage of using past research as a source of ideas for research is that
A. new ideas are readily accepted without empirical evidence. B. new ideas are often generated from old ones. C. new ideas do not need formulation of hypotheses to be supported. D. new ideas are easily proved through experiments when compared to other sources of ideas.