When considering the multi-tasking brain, no one's brain is designed to allow for the simultaneous processing of information in multiple channels. According to functional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) studies, what part of the brain is responsible for switching attention from one task to another?
a) left hemisphere
b) hippocampus
c) anterior prefrontal cortex
d) right hemisphere
c
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John believes that women make better parents than men because women have an inborn tendency to "mother" children. John's statement would reflect which of the following theories of motivation?
A. instinct B. incentive C. cognitive D. expectation-attribution
Research by Horowitz (1980) comparing the "scientific" method of jury selection with the conventional method found that, overall
A. the scientific method was consistently superior. B. the conventional method was consistently superior. C. neither was superior to the other for every type of trial. D. the traditional method was more effective only in those trials in which there were explicit relationships between personality and demographic variables and juror's votes.
________ proposed the concept of the collective unconscious
a. Jung b. Freud c. Bandura d. Adler e. Rotter
To select a random sample, what could a researcher do?
A. take every nth person from a list of everyone in the population B. use cluster sampling to ensure the sample is representative C. use a table of random numbers D. ask respondents who wish to be in the sample to volunteer