Primary emotions are
a. a set of emotions that appear toward the end of the first year of life
b. envy, shame, pride, and guilt
c. relatively easy for most adults to notice and interpret correctly
d. have no apparent survival value
C
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In the 1970s, information-processing psychologists combined their efforts to understand cognition with other professionals such as philosophers, linguists, engineers, and computer scientists, thus creating the field of:
a. artificial intelligence b. information theory c. cognitive science d. ecological psychology
As a modern procedure, trepanning, also called trephining, involves
a. the use of computer-generated images to present fear stimuli in the desensitization process. b. the suppression of an undesirable response by associating it with aversive stimuli. c. passing an electric shock directly through the brain to induce a convulsion. d. any surgical procedure in which a hole is bored into the skull.
Branches of the optic nerve go directly to what areas of the brain?
A. lateral geniculate and cerebral cortex B. superior colliculus and cerebral cortex C. lateral geniculate and superior colliculus D. prefrontal cortex and occipital lobe
What position does the text take on the question of whether human beings have
"instincts?" (a) the term used to be used for human beings but it is now clear that there is no such thing as instinctual behavior in humans (b) people have instincts but American psychologists attribute everything to learning (c) people have 7 basic instincts, out of which grow all complex behaviors (d) since the word instinct suggests "robot-like" behavior, the authors of the text say that they avoid applying it to humans