The Binet and Simon intelligence test measured children on what new concept?
a. divergent thinking
b. mental set
c. mental age
d. creativity
c
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Who popularized the use of frontal lobotomies in the United States by performing the procedure on thousands of individuals between the 1930s and 1950s?
a. ?Egas Moniz b. ?Ken Kesey c. ?Walter Freeman d. ?John Fulton
For most severe mental disorders, such as bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, research has found that adding psychotherapeutic treatments such as social skills training or cognitive behavioural therapy to medication:
A) reduces the effectiveness of treatment compared with medication alone. B) increases the effectiveness of treatment compared with medication alone. C) does not alter treatment effectiveness, and patients report that the psychotherapy is largely a waste of time. D) does not alter treatment effectiveness, but patients report liking the treatment with psychotherapy more than medication alone.
If you had to turn your car wheel left to make a right turn, you would likely get confused. This illustrates ______.
A. change blindness B. the Simon effect C. the attention capture phenomenon D. the theory of unconscious inference
Which of these statements characterizes the position of the text toward the
consequences of science? (a) consequences do not matter, because science is value-neutral (b) science has, on balance, led to a worsening of the human condition (c) science has led only to good things for humanity (d) science has, on balance, enhanced the quality of life for human beings