Your best friend's birthday is coming up and you ought to buy her a present. Your ability to consider what things she has, how she might react to what you get her, and how you are going to pay for her present,

are all made possible by the ________ function of consciousness.

a. selective storage
b. preconscious
c. planning
d. restrictive


Answer: c. planning

Psychology

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Georgio is jogging barefoot along the beach when he suddenly steps on the sharp edge of a broken shell. He instantly feels pain due to the message carried to his brain by ____. He then slowly walks home with an achy foot. The message of the ache is carried by ____

a. myelinated axons; unmyelinated axons b. myelinated dendrites; unmyelinated axons c. unmyelinated dendrites; myelinated axons d. unmyelinated axons; myelinated axons

Psychology

Promoting generalization through the use of multiple training examples that sample from the range of relevant stimulus situations and response variations is referred to as ____________ programming

a. higher order b. multiple case c. situational d. general case

Psychology

Roberto has not thought of his third-grade teacher in over 40 years. According to decay theory, the memory trace for his teacher should be ____

a. ?available but inaccessible b. ?accessible c. ?available d. ?unavailable

Psychology

When the cell membrane becomes permeable to sodium ions, this brings the membrane voltage to ______

a. -70 millivolts c. -40 millivolts b. +70 millivolts d. +40 millivolts

Psychology