Describe some disadvantages of using clinical case studies to connect brain function and cognition.
What will be an ideal response?
Lack of control over the damage meaning damage could be widespread and in areas the researcher is not intending to study; results may not generalize to large groups.
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The director of a new treatment facility for delinquent youths is thinking about using behavior modification as the chief method of changing behavior. Your advice to the new director might be the following: ____
a. "This form of treatment will be effective if it is skill-based, but maintaining behavior change requires help from peers and family." b. "Behavior modification relies too much on rapport building and cognitive factors to be successful." c. "Use behavior modification only if you can suppress the delinquent person's tendency to seek thrills." d. "Behavior modification is much less effective than therapies where there is less control."
Ashley learns that if her car does not start on the first try, pressing the gas pedal before trying to start it again will get the car to work. The next time Ashley's car does not start, she tries pressing the gas pedal, but this does not work. She concludes that her car needs repairs and does not notice that she is simply out of gas. Ashley is experiencing ____
a. ?functional fixedness b. ?incubation c. ?the representativeness heuristic d. ?a mental set
The perception of space and depth caused chiefly by the fact that the eyes receive different images is known as
a. accommodation. b. convergence. c. inverted vision. d. stereoscopic vision.
The hallmark of normal waking consciousness is ______
a. the highly selective nature of attention b. the highly generalized nature of attentive processes c. the short duration of attention-span d. the ability to intensely focus on multiple tasks at once