You are asked whether a drawing of one object could be rotated to match another one. When the answer is "yes," what influences your speed of reply?
a. Your delay is shorter if you report higher self-esteem
b. Your delay is shorter if you have had extensive musical training.
c. Your delay is proportional to how far one object must rotate to match the other.
d. Your delay is proportional to the size of the objects compared to the size of your hand.
c
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Unlike other animals, humans are able to continually build off of the knowledge and achievements of past generations. The textbook refers to this ability as ____
a. progress b. systematic culture c. praxis d. a network of exchange
Regarding handedness, which of the following statements is FALSE?
a. Prenatal hand preferences persist for at least ten years after birth. b. Handedness appears to be influenced by a single gene on the Y chromosome. c. Forcing a left-handed child to use the right hand may create speech or reading problems. d. Two left-handed parents are more likely to have a left-handed child than two right-handed parents are.
Timmy’s geography teacher gives the class a pop quiz in which he asks the class to draw a map of North America, which they learned about in the previous day’s lesson. Knowing what you do about mental representations, how well do you think Timmy would do on this quiz??
a. ?He will draw a perfect map of North America. b. ?He will get some of the details correct, but his map will contain many errors. c. ?His map will be so far off that it will not even resemble North America. d. ?The U.S. portion of the map will be very accurate, but Canada and Mexico will be distorted.
In the Atkinson and Shiffrin stages of memory, the progress of information through these stages
a. determines the vividness of perception. b. increases the opportunity for eidetic imagery to be produced. c. determines whether and how long information is retained. d. all of these.