If something in a complex scene changes slowly, or changes while you blink your eyes, you probably will not notice it unless you are paying attention to the particular item that changes. This phenomenon is called ____.
A. inattentional blindness
B. attentional suppression
C. masking
D. the Stroop effect
Answer: A
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Locke's ____ marks the formal beginning of British empiricism.?
a. ?An Essay Concerning Human Understanding b. ?A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge c. ?An Essay Toward a New Theory of Vision d. ?A Treatise of Human Nature e. ?Observations on Man, His Frame, His Duty, and His Expectations
Answer the following statements true (T) or false (F)
1. Although the just-noticeable difference is known to be a fixed quantity, the actual value of this quantity is different for each sense. 2. You can easily tell the difference between 1 and 2 kg, but not 100 and 101 kg, illustrating Weber's law. 3. You can easily tell the difference between 1 and 2 kg, but not 100 and 101 kg, illustrating an absolute threshold for perceiving differences in weight. 4. Signal detection accounts of perception assume the existence of thresholds. 5. Radiologists attempting to determine if a growth is cancerous probably will adopt a liberal decision criterion.
After burying his wife, an older adult found his answering machine still had a recording of her voice from a message she left a few days before her death. When he listens to this recording, he says he finds comfort and solace. As he tells you about this, your best response would be:
a. to tell him about a support group and urge him to meet new people b. to listen to him and acknowledge his finding comfort in this way c. to tell him he must realize he could be making it harder for himself to form new relationships d. to ask him if he would like you to call him and visit with him e. to tell him you know how he is feeling
If you take a sponge that is sopping wet and squeeze it over a table, the water in that sponge will form a puddle on the table. If you then take the empty sponge and slowly lower it into the puddle, the water will be reabsorbed into the sponge
In the very same way, __________ is the process by which a neuron moves many of its released neurotransmitters back into the terminal button. a. synaptic adherence b. neuronal sopping c. reuptake d. reabsorption