Dr. Scott McCabe and colleagues (2000 ) studied differences in cognitive processes by looking at attentional processes. This research found that:
a) Depressed individuals selectively attend to positive material
b) Depressed individuals selectively attend to negative material
c) Non-depressed individuals selectively attend to positive material
d) Non-depressed individuals do not selectively attend to either positive or negative material
c
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__________ is a measure of what one has already learned
a. Achievement b. Ability c. Adeptness d. Aptitude
Even though some studies have supported ESP, it nonetheless failed to gain credibility among psychologists because
a. the respected ESP researcher J. B. Rhine of Duke University was not a psychologist. b. films have sensationalized ESP phenomena. c. from years of research, not one person has been found who can show ESP consistently and from one researcher to another. d. television psychics are frauds.
Which of the following statements is not true?
a. Across cultures, females are better at identifying positive and negative emotions conveyed by facial expressions. b. Females show more anxieties and worries about social situations than males do. c. There are no gender differences in the physiology of empathic responses. d. Males tend to display more positive and negative emotions than girls do.
After suffering a brain injury by falling from a ladder, Zack's wife continues to tell the doctor that his personality has changed. He used to be fun loving and carefree, but he is now more critical and yells at his children for seemingly little reason. Zack is likely to have suffered damage to the _____ lobe of his cortex.
A) occipital B) parietal C) temporal D) frontal