The somatic nervous system controls activities such as heartbeat, respiration, digestion, and dilation of the pupils
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
False
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What type of bacteria was discovered to cause syphilis?
a. Chloroflexi b. Dictyoglomi c. Spirochete d. Thermotogae
Cody is visiting his pen pal in a tropical, nonindustrialized village. Cody is likely to find that the inhabitants of the village
a. take a 1- to 2-hour midday nap each day. b. are less likely than Americans to encourage co-sleeping. c. experience less REM sleep than is typical for Americans. d. experience less slow-wave sleep than is typical for Americans.
According to the research on test anxiety and reading comprehension, students who are high in test anxiety tend to
a. report having above-average study skills. b. be similar to other students in making correct inferences from textbook material. c. perform poorly on multiple-choice tests that assess reading comprehension. d. spend less time studying their textbooks.
How could the illusory-correlation effect produce a stereotype?
a. People use the prospect theory to predict the likelihood of the stereotype. b. People use the representativeness heuristic to determine whether a particular stereotype seems likely for a particular group of people. c. People pay too much attention to a group of people who have a particular combination of characteristics, and they ignore the other three possible combinations of characteristics. d. People overemphasize the estimate provided by anchor, and they pay too little attention to bottom-up processing.