If a new species were found with legs composed almost completely of fast-twitch muscles, what could we infer about its behavior?
a. It could chase prey over long distances
b. It could chase prey only over short distances.
c. It probably travels constantly.
d. It probably moves slowly and grazes on vegetation.
b
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You have a pair of pliers and a bag of nuts in the shell. You are lamenting the fact that you can't shell the nuts because you do not have a nutcracker. Your inability to perceive the pliers as a makeshift nutcracker demonstrates ____ on your part
a. functional fixedness b. mental set c. insight insufficiency d. heuristic reasoning
A consequence of Darwin's work for psychology was ____
a. the legitimization of the collective unconscious b. work in comparative physiology c. the theory of eugenics d. a focus on individual differences e. statistical analyses
Which of the following is most likely to bring about change in the psychological system?
a. Disease b. Environmental toxins c. Education d. Accidents
Which research design is the mostly tightly controlled?
A. pretest-posttest control group design B. one-group pretest-posttest C. quasi-experiment D. one-shot case study