As you scan a group of strangers looking for anyone you know, what guides your attention?

a. The availability heuristic
b. The representativeness heuristic
c. A top-down process
d. A bottom-up process


c

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An individual does not inherit schizophrenia but instead inherits a ______ for becoming schizophrenic.

A. destiny B. heritability C. genetic weight D. vulnerability

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Unlike the distribution of sample means, the distribution of ______ will stop at values of +1.0 on the high end and -1.0 on the low end.

A. R2 B. r values C. correlational D. sum of products

Psychology

Another name for the parallel distributed processing (PDP) model of memory is the ________

a. interaction model. b. multiple process model. c. connectionist model. d. long-term potentiation model.

Psychology

According to Biederman, geons provide a way to analyze 3-dimensional objects

a. so that they all appear the same. b. in terms of a universal set of feature detectors. c. before prototype analysis takes place. d. so that template-matching becomes less rigid. e. in order to perceive them in 2 dimensions.

Psychology