Quick impressions of people we meet tend to change after we have been around them for a longer period of time
Indicate whether this statement is true or false.
Answer: False
Rationale: Using the thin-slices method, researchers found that participants who watched 30 seconds of a college lecture (without sound) gave instructor ratings that were remarkably similar to the end-of-semester ratings of that same class. Additional research has shown even higher levels of agreement when rating high school teachers and using even thinner slices.
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What can we conclude from studying PET and fMRI studies of emotion and brain activation?
A. Specific emotions consistently activate specific areas. B. Places activated during a given emotion cluster in certain areas but are also scattered across wide areas of the brain. C. There is no discernible pattern of brain activation for most emotions. D. The findings support the localization of function approach.
The amount of light entering the eye is controlled by the __________
a) cornea b) lens c) pupil d) retina
Which of the following could explain why women in general have more pain tolerance than men do?
a) Testosterone stimulates pain receptors when they activate. b) Women are socialized differently. c) Women multitask so much more than men do. d) Estrogen sensitizes neurons to endorphins.
A gene that only influences the expression of a trait when paired with another less active gene is called __________.
A. recessive B. mutated C. recombinant D. dominant