Suppose you are in your kitchen writing a grocery list, while your roommate is watching TV in the next room. A commercial for spaghetti sauce comes on TV. Although you are not paying attention to the TV, you "suddenly" remember that you need to pick up spaghetti sauce and add it to the list. Your behavior is best predicted by which of the following models of attention?
a. Object-based
b. Early selection
c. Spotlight
d. Late selection
d
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What do parents report when asked why they think the Lamaze method of childbirth works successfully?
A. It saves money by not requiring a stay in the hospital. B. It provides parents with mastery and a sense of control. C. It allows childbirth to occur without the need for medication. D. It is safer for the newborn than any other procedure.
One of the hallmarks of the experimental method that makes it different from a correlational study is that in an experiment, a. we observe what happens in the natural world
b. the researcher is unaware of the independent variable. c. a variable is manipulated in a way that would not have occurred naturally. d. there are multiple control groups.
Between-subjects designs are often used in research on complex cognitive processes because
a. they reduce the variability of observations. b. they require fewer participants compared to within-subjects designs. c. they prevent the occurrence of carryover effects. d. they increase our confidence in the reliability of the results.
The trophoblast will become the embryo and eventually the fetus
Indicate whether the statement is true or false