Following a prenatal exam, your physician remarks, "It appears as if your fetus has 47 chromosomes.". What would be the most likely response to this information?
a. Concern, as this may indicate that your child has Down syndrome
b. Concern, as this may indicate that your child has sickle-cell anemia
c. Concern, as this may indicate that your child has phenylketonuria (PKU)
d. Relief, since this is a normal number of chromosomes
a
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What did Calhoun mean by "the behavioral sink?"
A. The shape of the experimental setting was like that of a sink (round with slanted walls), forcing rats to associate more than they normally would in the middle. B. The degree of abnormal behavior among the high-density rats was so extreme that it seemed like a sinkhole or pit of ever-degenerating behavior C. The rats in the high-density group failed to carry out their usual cleaning and hygiene behaviors. D. The rats' behaviors represented a new low in the treatment of animal research subjects.
Reducing errors and biasing by getting people to use deliberate rather than automatic processing is called ____
a. debiasing b. meta-cognition c. ironic processing d. anchoring
Most people find it morally permissible to sacrifice one life to save five lives if the action involves pulling a switch. However, most people find it morally impermissible to sacrifice one life for five lives if the action involves pushing a man from a bridge. Why?
A) An electromechanical device like a switch makes it more likely that the action will be effective. B) Pushing a man off a bridge evokes more negative emotional responses. C) People are more likely to be injured if they attempt to push a man off the bridge. D) People have doubts as to whether or not pushing a man from a bridge really will save five lives.
What results when new information enters short-term memory and overwrites or pushes out information that is already there?
a. encoding c. chunking b. maintenance d. interference