Which of the following statements is correct concerning what hypnosis can do?
a) Hypnosis can increase self-esteem.
b) Hypnosis can give a person superhuman strength.
c) Hypnosis can improve intelligence.
d) Hypnosis can improve skill in a foreign language.
ANS: A
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Regarding physical and cognitive changes in late adulthood, which of the following statements is FALSE?
a. Age-related declines in memory are generally not at a level significant enough to impair daily functioning. b. Aging brings loss of bone density and muscle mass, as well as reduced sharpness or acuity of the senses. c. Reaction times slow, which may have an impact on driving abilities. d. Immune system functioning declines, making older people more susceptible to illness. e. Fluid intelligence increases across much of the life span, only beginning to decline around age 70.
Learning by watching others and performing the modeled behavior is known as ____ learning.
A. observational B. perceptual C. operant D. classical
According to Anne Treisman's feature-integration theory,
a. distributed attention uses parallel search through the visual field. b. people first focus selective attention on important parts of the stimulus. c. focused attention is a relatively low-level kind of attention; people can quickly perform two focused-attention tasks simultaneously. d. people use focused attention for vision, and they use distributed attention for hearing.
"The whole is greater than the sum of the parts" is a statement that can be associated with the perspective of
A) introspection. B) functionalism. C) psychoanalysis. D) Gestalt psychology.