Sylvester had a traumatic injury to his brain that left him without the ability to feel euphoria or reinforcement from cocaine. What brain area was damaged?
a) The nucleus accumben
b) The frontal lobe
c) The brain stem
d) The hypothalamus
a) The nucleus accumben
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A. critical events scale B. daily hassles scale C. traumatic events scale D. life events scale
You are playing a trivia game on the computer when the category of "American Presidents" comes up. Having just taken an exam on this subject, you smile as you read the first question and the correct answer immediately "pops" in your head even before the four answers appear from which you will choose. You are experiencing
a. memory consolidation. b. the feeling of knowing. c. elaborative processing. d. déjà vu.
Walter and Lisa are driving their new car from Houston to Oklahoma City
Walter insists on doing most of the driving because he claims to be the "much better driver." When they get to their destination, the car dashboard reports that they got 34 miles per gallon of gasoline during the trip. Walter brags that, as the better driver, he knows how to get more out of the same amount of gasoline. Lisa smiles and decides not to mention that the new car has a more fuel-efficient engine. Which error is Walter making by taking credit for the higher fuel economy on this trip? A) He has made a claim that cannot be falsified. B) He has engaged in too much replication. C) He has not ruled out rival explanations. D) He has not remembered the concept of Occam's razor.
A leading humanistic thinker who asked questions about what made a person "good" as opposed to Freud’s focus on what goes wrong with people was ____.
a. Abraham Maslow b. Alan Newell c. Herbert Simon d. Carl Rogers