While looking at slides of brain tissue in a physiology class, you see groups of damaged neurons that have collected around a core of protein. What are you looking at?
a. Neurotransmitters
b. Neuritic plaques
c. Neurofibrillary tangles
d. Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors
b
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A trimmed sample is one that
a. has been distorted by lopping off the highest scores. b. is strongly influenced by outliers. c. is unrepresentative of what it purports to measure. d. has been truncated equally at the two extremes.
In a study on how marijuana affects creativity, the people who took the marijuana performed no more creatively than those who took a placebo. Both groups performed more creatively than a group that received no drugs at all
What conclusions can BEST be drawn from these findings? a. Marijuana enhances creativity. b. The group receiving the placebo was more creative to begin with than the group receiving the marijuana. c. Neither marijuana nor the placebo seem to have any effect on creativity. d. The creative effects of marijuana are probably due to people's beliefs that it will increase their creativity.
One way to gain compliance from others is through the use of the foot-in-the-door technique. Which of the following represents the sequence corresponding to this technique?
A) a large request followed by a still larger request B) a moderate request followed by another moderate request C) a small request followed by a large request D) a large request followed by a small request
Each of Sigmund Freud's psychosexual stages is organized around
a) a latency period. b) an erogenous zone. c) developing abilities for rational thought. d) the development of new psychic structures.