Al's refusal to try sushi because all fish should be cooked, "just like Americans do," is an example of ___________ ethnocentrism
a. temporary
b. flexible
c. specific
d. inflexible
d
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The best known example of a psychometric approach to quality-of-life assessment is the
a. TAS. b. WHO. c. SIP. d. MMPI.
Adaptive reorganization that occurs at every period of life is called
a. plasticity b. continuity c. stability d. reductivity
After damage to the ventral roots of the spinal cord, an individual will suffer what kind of loss?
a. sensation from the affected body area b. control of the peripheral muscles in the affected body area c. control of organs in the affected body area d. sensation of the muscles on the opposite side of the body
"Perceiving machines" are used by the U.S. Postal service to "read" the addresses on letters and sort them quickly to their correct destinations. Sometimes, these machines cannot read an address, because the writing on the envelope is not sufficiently clear for the machine to match the writing to an example it has stored in memory. Human postal workers are much more successful at reading unclear
addresses, most likely because of a. bottom-up processing. b. top-down processing. c. their in-depth understanding of principles of perception. d. repeated practice at the task.