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
a. True
b. False
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
True
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Vocational maturity is best associated with:
A. Piaget's stages of cognitive development. B. the amount of congruence between occupation behaviors and age. C. Freud's psychosexual stages. D. the income level that one attains.
What process does long-term potentiation (LTP) reflect?
a. the creation of new AMPA receptors b. the creation of new NMDA receptors c. the expansion of axon terminals d. the high loading of neurotransmitters
Which of the following is NOT a key ingredient of psychoanalysis?
A) Empathic atmosphere B) Frequent meetings C) Patient who follows the fundamental rule of free association D) An analyzed psychoanalyst
Chapter 5 discussed a study by Waring and Kensinger (2011), in which people looked at stimuli that were either very positive, very negative, or neutral; each stimulus was shown together with a neutral background, such as a river
The results of this study showed that people were least likely to recognize this neutral background a. when the stimulus was very positive. b. when the stimulus was very negative. c. when the stimulus was neutral. d. when they were tested immediately after the stimuli had been presented.