The example of a new parent who sleeps through a loud thunderstorm, but wakes up the minute his newborn infant begins to cry is used to illustrate that during sleep, there is
a. no awareness of external stimuli.
b. a selective awareness of external stimuli.
c. no awareness of either external or internal stimuli.
d. an awareness of all external stimuli.
B
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The sum of our experiences accumulated over a lifetime is Titchener's definition of ____.?
a. ?mind b. ?consciousness c. ?memory d. ?apperception e. ?learning
Glass and Singer (1972) exposed participants to bursts of loud noise while they solved puzzles. Some participants were told that they could turn off the noise by pressing a button. Others were not given this option. Glass and Singer found that:
A) loud noise produced dramatic decreases in task performance in both groups. B) loud noise increased task performance in the group with the escape option. C) simply having an escape option reduced the disruptiveness of the loud noise. D) loud noise increased task performance, but only in the group that actively turned it off.
Motherese is when adults use child-directed speech
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Miranda's grandfather is an avid photographer, and he wants to spend time teaching Miranda how to take better pictures. Miranda, on the other hand, is perfectly content to take pictures with her cell phone and does not even bother learning how to use a camera. She tries to act interested to please her grandfather, but research indicates that Miranda
A. will get caught up in her grandfather's enthusiasm and become a fairly good photographer herself. B. probably will improve somewhat but not as much as her grandfather would like. C. probably won't learn to take better pictures because she doesn't place a high value on that goal. D. None of these choices are correct.