When driving at night, an elderly person may have trouble seeing well when exiting a lighted freeway onto an unlighted road. The most likely cause of this trouble involves
a. reduced sensory thresholds.
b. presbycusis.
c. slower dark adaptation abilities.
d. trouble with near vision.
c
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A. 50 B. 100 C. 5 D. 10
In the past, response biases were viewed as methodological artifacts that needed to be controlled in order to get to "true" responses, but today, there is a growing view of them as an important part of cultural influence on data
a) True b) False
An organism learns a relationship between two stimuli, such that the occurrence of one stimulus predicts the occurrence of another. This explanation is characteristic of:
A. stimulus-substitution theory B. cognitive perspective C. prediction theory D. generalization theory
Young language learners are bombarded with so many unfamiliar words. It is hard to imagine how they figure out which words are nouns, which words are verbs, and which words are adjectives. Brown (1957) proposed a solution
He said that children figure it out by using ___ cues. a. perceptual b. social c. memory d. grammatical