George Miller (and others) fix 1956 as the date of the beginning of cognitive science and base it on ________
A) a book about information theory
B) a symposium on information theory
C) a symposium on memory
D) the book Remembering
E) the book Awakenings
B
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a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false
According to Jung, the id is the center of consciousness
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
In 1959, Festinger and Carlsmith conducted a classic experiment in which they asked participants to tell a lie (about how interesting a very boring study was). The researchers paid participants either $1 or $20 to tell this lie. The same participants were then asked how interesting they really thought the study was. What did the researchers find?
a. There was no difference between those paid $1 and those paid $20; both said that the (very boring) study was indeed boring. b. There was no difference between those paid $1 and those paid $20; both said that the (very boring) study was in fact very interesting. c. Compared to those paid $1, those paid $20 rated the study as much more interesting. d. Compared to those paid $20, those paid $1 rated the study as much more interesting.
Emotions are complex in nature. Some philosophers have argued that emotions have evolved to help species adapt to their environment. This view of emotions is best illustrated by what approach?
A. Functionalism B. Empiricism C. Structuralism D. Foundationalism E. Positivism