Deciding that the spider on your arm is a black widow would be an example of
a. fight-or-flight.
b. cortical emotion.
c. primary appraisal.
d. secondary appraisal.
C
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Which of the following statements about the nervous system is NONSENSE? a. Split-brain patients sometimes act as if they have two minds in one head. b. You use only 10 percent of your brain
c. Adult neurons alter their shape in response to experience. d. Inhibitory connections are essential for proper brain functioning.
You are sitting in the living room reading the newspaper. Your sister comes in and asks you, "I missed the weather. What is the high temperature going to be tomorrow?" You answer, "Sixty-nine degrees," even though you were not aware that the television was even turned on. This example shows that
A. some stimuli register without one's attending to them. B. top-down and bottom-up processing can be mutually exclusive. C. different neural pathways are involved in hearing and seeing. D. memory involves some stimulation of the amacrine cells in one's brain.
Participants receive all levels of a(n) ______ variable, but only one level of a(n) ______ variable in an experimental design.
a. independent; dependent b. dependent; independent c. within-subjects; between-subjects d. between-subjects; within-subjects
Newborns show some rejection in response to the aroma of
A) bananas. B) vanilla. C) butter. D) fishy odors.