Joe enters a room, sees a novel object, and promptly walks over and sits on it. The object was about the size of a small table and had a flat, smooth surface at approximately knee height. If asked to explain Joe's behavior, Gibson would likely say that Joe _____
A) ?was acting based on affordances
B) ?had sustained damage to his hippocampus
C) ?had learned the function of the object from optic flow
D) ?was suffering from optic ataxia
A
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Dr. Abdullah's new patient is diagnosed with dissociative fugue. Rather than doing in-depth psychotherapy, the doctor prescribes an antidepressant and provides emotional support. Why would Dr. Abdullah respond this way? a. The doctor probably sees the condition as iatrogenic
b. The doctor probably agrees with the psychodynamic perspective. c. The doctor probably knows that dissociative fugue is a hopeless condition that is untreatable. d. The doctor probably knows that dissociative fugue goes away spontaneously and that depression is the only significant treatable symptom.
A vascular condition that causes blood to become trapped in the erectile tissue of the penis is known as ____
a. testicular torsion c. cryptorchidism b. priapism d. Peyronie's disease
What is a holophrase?
a. the first complete sentence that a child utters b. a double-word utterance that a child speaks around 14-months of age c. a single word utterance that expresses a complex meaning d. a first word from the infant accompanied by physical gestures
The rate of schizophrenia is
(a) much higher in western countries (b) much higher in developing countries (c) much higher in countries in which alcoholism is prevalent (d) very much lower in urban centers than in farm areas (e) relatively constant across cultures