According to Piaget, the stage at which people develop the ability to think abstractly is the

Leslie is studying test anxiety and administers a test to his research participants that asks them to rate their anxiety in various situations on a scale of 0 (no anxiety) to 10 (the worst anxiety imaginable). He then uses the scores to divide his participants into high, medium, and low anxiety groups. Leslie's "high-medium-low" scale is best described as an example of a(n) ____ scale

a. nominal b. ordinal c. interval d. ratio

When attention is divided, what happens in the brain?

A) There is less activity in the cerebellum during retrieval. B) There is greater activity in the lower left frontal lobe during encoding. C) There is less activity in the upper right frontal lobe during retrieval. D) There is reduced hippocampal activity during encoding.

The final major historical change that provided the basis for how we live today began around 5,000 years ago with the development of __________.

A. agriculture and animal husbandry B. roadways C. family units D. civilization

Peter is shown a photograph of a man standing in a garden holding an orange. He is then shown an identical photograph, except that the man is holding an apple, not an orange. Peter does not detect a difference. This type of experiment demonstrates which phenomenon?

A. blindsight B. the attentional spotlight C. feature integration D. change blindness