While walking down a crowded city street, we hear someone sound his car horn to try to get traffic moving. If we use actor-observer bias to attribute cause to the horn honking, we will:
A. believe that we would never use our own horn in traffic
B. judge the traffic to be very frustrating
C. remind ourselves that there are drivers on the road who deserve to be honked at once in a while
D. consider the horn honker to be impatient
Answer: D
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a. focuses on immediate outcomes. b. focuses on short-term outcomes. c. has a desire for external rewards. d. has a desire for internal gratification. e. has low achievement motivation.
While jogging barefoot on the beach, Georgio steps on the sharp edge of a broken shell and immediately lifts his foot. What causes Georgio to immediately lift his foot in response to the shell?
a. Sensory neurons relay information directly to the spinal cord and motor neurons in the spinal cord send information to muscles in the foot. b. Sensory neurons relay information directly to the brain and motor neurons in the brain send information to muscles in the foot. c. Motor neurons relay information directly to the spinal cord and sensory neurons in the spinal cord send information to muscles in the foot. d. Motor neurons relay information directly to the brain and sensory neurons in the brain send information to muscles in the foot.
The chapter on long-term memory discussed the research by Talarico and Rubin, about students' memory for how they learned about the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. According to this research,
a. the students were overconfident that their recall of the event was accurate. b. the number of inconsistent details, supplied by the students, stayed the same over time. c. the students' recall was much more accurate for the terrorist attack than for an ordinary event. d. the students' memory for the terrorist attack actually included more inconsistent details than consistent details.
Wernicke's area is located in the _____ cortex.
A) left frontal B) right frontal C) left temporal D) right temporal