What do the current visual prosthetic devices, such as retinal implants, do?
a. They directly stimulate ganglion cells.
b. They directly stimulate visual cortex cells.
c. They directly stimulate rods and cones.
d. They tap into the auditory nerve to provide visual information through the intact auditory system.
A
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Recent research using MRI suggests that the correlation between overall brain volume and IQ scores is approximately
a. .40. b. -.40. c. .20. d. .60.
The fact that both biological and environmental factors have been shown to jointly govern eating behavior, sexual desire, and the experience of emotion is illustrative of which of the following unifying themes of your textbook?
a. Psychology is empirical. b. Psychology evolves in a sociohistorical context. c. The interplay of heredity and environment. d. Our behavior is shaped by our cultural heritage.
A specific nominal refers to
a. classes of objects. b. personal pronouns. c. proper nouns. d. words longer than two syllables.
The "evil eye," Latin American susto, and the Haitian phenomenon of voodoo death are currently viewed as examples of the a. unsubstantiated myths that people can become ill without physical cause
b. power of the cultural environment on our physical and psychological health. c. power of the supernatural model of psychopathology. d. isolated cultural phenomena with little practical significance.