After Friday's lecture, Debbie was finally able to understand why we have blurry vision when we look "out of the corner" of our eyes; the peripheral retina ______.
A. contains cones
B. has receptors that synapse on few ganglion cells
C. has smaller receptive fields
D. has receptors which synapse on far more ganglion cells
Answer: B
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A. more plastic brains B. brains that developed less efficiently C. a shorter pruning period D. a shorter period for shaping neural networks
Eva just upgraded her software package. However, even though the updated version contains a number of more efficient methods for working with files, Eva continues to work with files the way she did before the upgrade. In this case, Eva is showing evidence of
a. mental set. b. belief perseverance. c. priming. d. the availability heuristic.
Martin thinks that he is John the Baptist's cousin and keeps trying to "baptize" all the other residents in the psychiatric facility. Martin is experiencing
a. somatic delusions. b. delusions of reference. c. delusions of influence. d. delusions of grandeur.
Compared with school-age children, preschoolers
A) spend more time involved in tasks. B) are more focused on tasks. C) spend shorter times involved in tasks, but are less distractible. D) spend shorter times involved in tasks and are easily distracted.