In Piaget’s theory, the mental models children use to interpret and guide their experiences are called _________.
A) constructs
B) complexes
C) schemas
D) structures
Ans: C) schemas
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According to Chomsky, which of the following is true of the deep structure of a sentence?
a. It refers directly to the sentence as it is heard. b. It must be taken into account to resolve some ambiguous sentences. c. It is the most basic aspect of phrase structure grammar. d. It is an unnecessary element of transformational grammar.
According to the health-belief model, a person would be more likely to engage in safe sex if that person believed that
A. he or she had less of a chance of contracting HIV than the general population. B. the severity of HIV is overestimated. C. the benefits of using a condom outweigh the costs. D. there was little chance to avoid HIV, if he or she was sexually active.
The tendency to recall things that are presented at the end of a sequence is called the __________ effect
a) serial position b) recency c) primacy d) sequence order
Participants in an experiment are shown images for two seconds, then asked to describe what they saw in each image. When describing the image of a clown, a majority of participants said they saw him wearing a brightly colored wig. In the image shown, the clown was bald. What explains the participants' misperception of this image?
A. Top-down perceptual processing B. Feature detection processing C. Bottom-up perceptual processing D. Gestalt perceptual processing