Which of the following is the best definition of precognition?
a. the ability to foretell the future
b. the ability to move objects without touching them c. the ability to read other people's minds
d. the perception of events not available to the senses
e. the ability to project one's thoughts into others' minds
a
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Your father recently suffered a brain injury to his right hemisphere. What is a likely effect of this injury?
a) Your father will be unresponsive to spoken language. b) Simple tasks such as reading newspapers and eating will be impossible. c) Tasks such as solving a puzzle will bring inappropriate joy that others will not understand. d) Your father will have difficulty recognizing faces and interpreting emotion from tone of voice.
A fundamental point about adaptation is that
(a) we adapt to the status quo (b) sensory adaptation occurs only in vision (c) adaptation reduces our sensitivity to changing environmental circumstances (d) adaptation is a very rapid process, normally taking about 7 to 10 minutes
Which of the following statements is true about adolescent delinquency?
A) The late-onset type is far more likely to lead to a life-course pattern of aggression and criminality than the early-onset type. B) Most research on adolescent delinquency has focused on boys from middle- and upper-SES families. C) Early-onset youngsters seem to inherit traits that predispose them to aggressiveness and also show subtle deficits in cognitive functioning. D) The longer antisocial young people spend in prison, the less likely they are to sustain a life of crime.