Describe the study with the spot of light going around a clock, in which researchers measured the time of a conscious decision relative to brain activity and the start of a movement
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A participant watched a dot move around a clock, and remembered its location at the time when he/she made a conscious decision to flex the wrist. The researchers noted the time of the reported decision, the time when brain activity relevant to the movement began, and the time of the movement itself. The reported decision occurred a fraction of a second before the movement, but brain activity began even earlier. The suggestion is that consciousness is not necessary for a decision. That is, the brain starts generating the movement before the person is conscious of making a decision.
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a. ambivalent b. avoidant c. secure d. independent
The textbook suggests that ADHD tends to be:
a. underdiagnosed. b. overdiagnosed and overmedicated. c. found more often in girls than in boys. d. evident by age 7, but symptoms of ADHD disappear over time.
Single-stage models of recall propose that recall depends on ______.
a. generating possible answers and then seeing whether any fit as a correct answer b. directly accessing a memory for a visual match c. implicit processing d. finding a match between retrieval cues and content in memory
The __________ method of researching perceptual abilities in neonates utilizes the child's
tendency to demonstrate a decrease in interest to a repeatedly presented stimulus. Fill in the blanks with correct word