Which behavior is most likely to result from the activity of central pattern generators?
a. a dog shaking itself to dry off
b. a child catching a baseball
c. a child playing the piano
d. an adult yawning
a
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Which of the following is true about standardized test scores?
a. They provide a reasonable indication of whether or not a student should continue pursuing a particular career path. b. They typically do not improve even with time and practice. c. In general, they tend to have high predictive validity. d. They tend to feed into the development of fixed mindsets.
According to the general mechanism approach, speech perception can be explained by
a. the same kind of learning mechanisms that humans use in acquiring other cognitive skills. b. an innate ability to acquire language. c. a neural unit in the temporal lobe of the cortex that is "programmed" shortly before birth. d. listeners' skills in coordinating phonemes with the lip position of a speaker.
Miriam had troublesome mental health issues in the mid 1950s. Which of the interventions below absolutely would NOT have been available to her had she sought treatment at that time?
a. group therapy b. rationale emotive therapy (RET) c. client-centered therapy d. psychoanalysis
The clear protective coating over the front part of the eye is the ______
a) fovea b) sclera c) cornea d) iris