The electrical nature of the nerve impulse was one of the most important discoveries in physiology concurrent with the founding of psychology in the late 1800s.?
a.
True
b.
False
True
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In a preschool classroom, the teacher is singing the alphabet song. He sings "A, B, C, D, E, F"…and then stops. The children shout out "G!" How did the children know what came next in the song?
a. By memorizing 26 chunks of information b. Through repetition and rote learning c. By guessing correctly d. Through intuitively knowing this song from birth without the use of memorization
A(n) _____ is comprised of a baseline phase, a treatment phase, and reinstatement of the baseline phase
a. reversal study b. ABAB study c. analogue experiment d. multiple baseline study
If asked, "Which is more probable? A. Janice wears glasses and is a librarian. B. Janice is a librarian.". Most people would answer A, although A is less likely to be true than B. According to Tversky and Kahneman, such faulty conclusions are based on
a. the framing effect. b. convergent thinking. c. divergent thinking. d. the representativeness heuristic.
In his neuropsychological theory of behavior, Donald Hebb suggested that intelligence
tests measure __________ consisting of __________. a. Intelligence A; biological potential b. Intelligence A; environmental influence c. Intelligence B; biological potential d. Intelligence B; environmental influence e. Intelligence B; both biological development and environmental influence.