Research on divided attention suggests that ______.
a. some people can multitask without any drop in performance
b. there are no limits on the number of things that we can successfully do at once
c. as individual tasks become more demanding, multitasking becomes more efficient
d. if you think that you are doing two things simultaneously, you are probably really rapidly
switching attention back and forth between the two
d. if you think that you are doing two things simultaneously, you are probably really rapidly
switching attention back and forth between the two
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a) Outcome bias b) Information bias c) Hindsight bias d) Congruence bias
A researcher is interested in whether high school students who play sports have a higher or lower body mass index (BMI) than students in the general population. The researcher is unsure whether playing sports will decrease body mass (due to more calories burned) or increase body mass (due to more muscle mass). The researcher selects a sample of 60 athletes and finds that their average BMI is 22
The average (ยต) in the general population of students is 22.5 with a standard deviation (s) of 3 . What is zobt for this sample? a. 0.98 b. 1.29 c. 1.96 d. 2.25
A rat whose lateral hypothalamus was destroyed would be expected to ____
a. ?starve to death b. ?eat, but never to the point of obesity c. ?eat continuously until it died from obesity d. ?increase eating substantially and then level off
The term just noticeable difference is synonymous with
a. separation threshold. b . response threshold. c. difference threshold. d. absolute threshold. e. Weber's law.