Examining the yearly reports of accident rates in children, Dr, Worth determined that most children in middle childhood experience accidents caused by:
a. their lack of agility
b. other people
c. their inability to anticipate situations that may cause injury.
d. themselves
B. The leading cause of accidents in middle childhood is car accidents. Therefore, they are caused by other people.
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James Randi and others have demonstrated that:
A. extrasensory perception does, in fact, exist B. extrasensory perception is a skill that can be practical C. most of what passes for ESP is really just trickery D. people are capable of many unexplainable psychic feats
"Perceiving machines" are used by the U.S. Postal service to "read" the addresses on letters and sort them quickly to their correct destinations. Sometimes, these machines cannot read an address, because the writing on the envelope is not sufficiently clear for the machine to match the writing to an example it has stored in memory. Human postal workers are much more successful at reading unclear
addresses, most likely because of a. bottom-up processing. b. top-down processing. c. their in-depth understanding of principles of perception. d. repeated practice at the task.
If you touch your thumb and first finger together to form a circle, it means "A-okay" in North America, while it means "You are worth zero" in France and Belgium. This difference illustrates
a. that gestures are too inexact to be considered a part of kinesics. b. gestures tend to reveal feelings that would normally be concealed. c. cultural learning affects the meaning of gestures. d. all of these aspects.
"I'm good when I get praised, and I'm bad when I get spanked.". This statement represents ____ in Kohlberg's model of moral reasoning
a. the "good boy" or "good girl" orientation b. naive hedonism c. the punishment and obedience orientation d. social-order-maintaining morality