Don tells Ray that he wants to get a new sports car
Ray immediately understands why, because he is familiar with the common characteristics of sports cars and knows what makes them different from family cars. Ray is using mental categories called ________.
a) classes
b) concepts
c) attributes
d) classifications
ANS: b
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c. Measure the pupillary constriction reflex to a bright light. d. Measure the startle reflex to a sudden loud noise.
Strayer and Johnston's (2001) experiment involving simulated driving and the use of "hands-free" vs. "handheld" cell phones found that
a. talking on either kind of phone impairs driving performance significantly and to the same extent. b. driving performance was impaired only with the handheld cell phones. c. driving performance was impaired less with the hands-free phones than with the handheld phones. d. divided attention (driving and talking on the phone) did not affect performance.
Children who practice gender segregation
a. socially regard the other sex as an out-group. b. segregate themselves, despite knowledge that it is wrong. c. merely respond to parental encouragement to do it. d. respond unconsciously to innate instincts to segregate.
The inability to remember the name of a person only minutes after meeting her, even if he repeats her name immediately after hearing it, is a common __________ problem.
A. structural B. morphological C. retrieval D. positioning