Julius gets up in the middle of the night and turns on the bathroom light to get a drink of water. The process by which his receptor cells take the light from the environment and convert it into electrical signals is referred to as ___________.


Answer: transduction

Psychology

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Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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After much training, what language skills would you expect a chimp to be able to produce?

a. simple nouns b. one and two word sentences c. thousands of hand signs d. hundreds of hand signs

Psychology

One study showed that compared to their heterosexual siblings, gay and lesbian adults reported:

a. higher earnings and higher prestige jobs over their lifetimes. b. experiencing more violence over their lifetimes. c. happier romantic relationships. d. greater overall life satisfaction..

Psychology

Observational measurement methods involve asking group members to describe—often through surveys—their personal observations of group activities.

  a.  True   b.  False

Psychology