In a classic study in which participants were asked to count the
number of times a basketball was passed between the team members wearing black, half the participants failed to notice the person wearing the gorilla suit who walked into the middle of the basketball game.
Indicate whether this statement is true or false
ANSWER: True
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a. Beginning of thought b. Secondary circular reaction c. Coordination of secondary schemes d. Tertiary circular reaction
Many single-gene disorders such as sickle-cell disease predispose people toward a major cause of vascular dementia known as
a. vascularitis. b. dementing vesicles. c. stroke. d. vascular bleeding.
Dr. Bryant gave 40 people a story to read that evoked one of four emotions (sad, happy, angry, neutral) then evaluated the number of words that they could remember in a short-term memory task. The degrees of freedom associated with the between-conditions variability for this experiment would be
a. 1 b. 3 c. 36 d. 39
According to Terman's original computation of intelligence quotient, if Ralph's computed IQ score is 75, then
a. he might be a 12-year-old who is as smart as the average nine-year-old. b. he correctly answered three-fourths of the questions on the intelligence test. c. he is 75 years old. d. he might be a 6-year-old who is as intelligent as most eight-year-olds. e. he is as smart as the average 75-year-old.