Suppose that you look up from this exam, and you immediately perceive a scene that includes students, desks, and classroom walls. In order to perceive it quickly, you are probably using
a. serial processing.
b. parallel processing.
c. ecological validity.
d. metacognition.
Ans: b
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a. "I just can't get to sleep at night." b. "Once I go to sleep, I sleep way too long.". c. "I only slept four hours last night.". d. "If I don't get enough sleep at night, I am just worthless the next day.".
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a. greater than the mean itself b. equal to the mean c. equal to 1.0 d. equal to zero
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A. analyze patterns of reinforcement and punishment that follow their actions B. determine when a neutral stimulus is paired with an unconditioned stimulus that produces a reflexive response C. detect trends in their immediate environment and mimic the behavior that they see most often D. extract frequently occurring patterns to detect the fundamental structure of information flows
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A. psychodynamic therapy B. behavior therapy C. humanistic therapy D. cognitive therapy