Research has shown that:
a. most dreams have a short duration, but can last up to an hour
b. most dreams tend to involve positive emotions
c. dreams later in the night tend to draw on events of the previous day
d. the average person spends 300 minutes dreaming each night
a
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Suppose that you are trying to read the name of a psychologist who studies creativity, "Csikszentmihalyi." You find that you are silently pronouncing his name as you read it, because
a. your visuospatial sketchpad can maintain only a limited amount of information. b. challenging words are automatically shunted off to the central executive. c. the visuospatial sketchpad and the phonological loop are both activated, because of the spatial nature of the unfamiliar letter sequence d. the phonological loop plays a role in reading, as well as in memory.
Which of the following students provides the best definition of the term "inference," in connection with the discussion of semantic memory in Chapter 8?
a. Don: "An inference refers to those conclusions and logical implications that people make, even when they were never directly stated in the original stimulus." b. Javier: "An inference is the grammatical structure of a sentence, in both written and spoken language." c. Polina: "An inference occurs when one speaker stops talking, and another begins to speak." d. Lindsey: "An inference is basically an alternate term for the word validity."
What is not one of the effects of being an abused child?
a. Better emotional regulation b. Delayed cognitive development c. Aggressive behavior toward peers d. Depression
When you are walking through a zoo and you enter the "Africa Experience" exhibit, you would be very surprised to see a polar bear or a penguin, but probably not at all surprised to see an elephant or a rhinoceros. Why is that?
a) because of crosslinking of sensory experiences b) because the opponent-process theory allows for only one "schema" of animal to occur at a time c) because bottom-up processing will not allow you to accept an animal out of its place d) because of a perceptual set about what you will see in that exhibit