All humans have a blind spot in each eye, a spot with no sensory receptors, but there is no blind spot in our conscious perception. With the help of micro eye movements called _____ our brains fill this spot in so it looks as if we see everything
a) retinal stabilization
b) ocular microtremors
c) ocular drifts
d) microsaccades
d
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Due to her accurate knowledge of prenatal physiology, Amber knows that because her unborn child suffers from anencephaly, the child will be born with
a. a conjoined twin. b. abnormal limb development. c. ambiguous genitals. d. no developed brain above the brain stem.
Kuhn and Pease (2008) trained fourth graders in scientific problem-solving using earthquake and avalanche forecasting programs in fourth through sixth grade. One of their key findings was that
a. trained sixth graders were still not as good as untrained seventh graders at justifying a scientific theory with evidence. b. trained sixth graders were about the same as untrained seventh graders at justifying a scientific theory with evidence. c. trained sixth graders were better than untrained seventh graders at justifying a scientific theory with evidence. d. the children showed little improvement in scientific problem-solving over the three-year period, supporting Inhelder and Piaget’s argument that formal operational thinking is not found until adolescence.
Which of the following is the best example of chunking?
A) Cedric is able to remember all of the names of the kids in his class. B) Caroline uses the first letter of each of her vocabulary words and spells out the word "butterfly" to help her remember. C) Katie writes down an example for each of her vocabulary words. D) Andrea creates a sentence using all of her vocabulary words.
Freud is to _____ as Maslow is to _____.
A. behavioral, cognitive B. cognitive, behavioral C. psychodynamic, humanistic D. humanistic, psychodynamic