What is one way to determine whether a given cell in the primary visual cortex is "simple" or "complex"?
A. the shape of its receptive field
B. whether its receptive field is monocular or binocular
C. whether it can respond equally to lines in more than one location
D. whether it is sensitive to the orientation of the stimulus
Answer: C
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a. Situations change traits. b. Situations create new traits. c. Traits dominate situations. d. Situations affect how traits are exhibited.
Women in the United States are most likely to be depressed if they have which of the following characteristics?
a. married b. Latina c. high levels of education d. all of these
Indiana Jones goes off to foreign lands in search of artifacts hidden in dangerous places and guarded by fierce protectors. From the perspective of arousal theory, Dr. Jones would be described as high in a characteristic known as:
a) need for achievement. b) extraversion. c) sensation seeking. d. incentive value.
Today, Bandura's theory stresses the importance of
A) cognition. B) punishment. C) heredity. D) classical conditioning.