A stimulus that resets an internal biological clock is termed a ________

Fill in the blank with the appropriate word.


Answer: zeitgeber

Psychology

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In the _______________, the treatment has no effect

Fill in the blank(s) with correct word

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The rate by which hair cells fire is much more important in perceiving:

A) low-pitched sounds than it is in perceiving high-pitched sounds. B) high-pitched sounds than it is in perceiving low-pitched sounds. C) loud sounds than it is in perceiving soft sounds. D) soft sounds than it is in perceiving loud sounds.

Psychology

New learning that works in the opposite direction from the original learning results in ________

a. shaping b. generalization c. spontaneous recovery d. extinction

Psychology

According to the article Pants On Fireabout the detection of high stake lies, Ekman found a correlation

between ability to detect high stakes lies and ability to detect microexpressions. Does this mean that being good at detecting microexpressions causes someone to be good at detecting lies? (a) yes, because the two are so strongly related (b) yes, for some people (c) no, because the data were only correlational (d) no, because the correlations were not statistically significant

Psychology