Mirror neurons are activated by
a. performing an act, but not merely watching it.
b. verbally responding to someone else's gestures.
c. watching another perform the same act and/or imitating it.
d. physically responding to someone else's gestures in a unique way.
c
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a. males who feel powerful and adequate are likely to feel hostile toward women b. males who feel powerless and inadequate are likely to have very hostile and mistrustful attitudes toward women c. females are always very hostile in their attitudes toward other women, even more so than males d. males who are adequate are truly hypercompetitive in their attitudes toward women
A young man reads in a letter that he has just won $1,000 in a state-wide lottery and he literally jumps for joy. Which neurons are sending messages from his brain to his legs ordering them to jump?
a) sensory neurons b) motor neurons c) interaction neurons d) association neurons
In opening her new private preschool, Mrs. Alvarez plans to
only accept students who come from upper-middle income families, because she read that students who perform well come from higher socioeconomic families. Mrs. Alvarez is making the _____ error of critical thinking. A) Occam's Razor B) extraordinary claims C) confirmation bias D) correlation vs. causation
At her high school reunion, Emily realizes that several of her classmates have changed: Mark, the class clown, confides that he takes medication to keep himself emotionally stable because he attempted suicide and tried to fly off the garage roof when he believed that he had invented a nuclear umbrella. Alice, the most likely to succeed, washes her hands repeatedly and dries them with tissues, her standard purification ritual, before she will drink the punch. The prom queen, Mary, is not at the reunion because she is afraid to leave her house. The star quarterback, Gary, says he is in charge of the CIA and that a group of terrorists plans to take him hostage. While he is talking, he carefully watches his wife dance with an old classmate and appears jealous. Choose two of Emily's classmates
and make a diagnosis of the psychological disorder each may be suffering from, describe the disorder, and state what symptoms led to your diagnosis. What will be an ideal response?