One of the reasons that split-brain patients are interesting to psychologists is:
a. They have a simplified state of consciousness
b. They cannot experience a "sense of self"
c. They give psychologists an opportunity to see if a sense of self is located in a specific hemisphere
d. None of the above
C
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b. study confounds. c. external validity. d. the original research hypothesis.
Who performed the first systematic studies of animal behavior for its own sake, without attempting to infer the cognitive processes from the observed behavior?
a. Thorndike b. Washburn c. Morgan d. Titchener
Patti is passing on a mutated gene on her X chromosome. Why is her son more likely to express the mutation in his phenotype than her daughter is?
a) Males are more likely to inherit the bad copy of a gene whenever there is one. b) Males do not have a second X chromosome that might have a good copy of the gene. c) Estrogen will silence a mutated gene once her daughter experiences puberty. d) Her daughter's Y chromosome will probably have a good copy of that gene to offset the bad one.
Sullivan believed that success in opposite-sex relationships was built on a foundation of success in
A) intimacy-based groups. B) cliques. C) crowds. D) same-sex relationships.