It is difficult to distinguish between colors at night because ______
a) we are seeing primarily with the cones
b) rods do not adapt to the dark
c) we are seeing primarily with the rods
d) we are used to seeing mostly with the fovea
ANS: C, Rods are insensitive to color and thus when they are active you can only detect black and white shades.
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a. ?leader-member exchange theory b. ?counterproductive work behavior c. ?existence, relatedness, growth theory d. ?organizational citizenship behavior
When research participants use their ____ memory, blood flow changes occur outside the hippocampus
a. ?explicit b. ?implicit c. ?episodic d. ?autobiographical
As a graduate student in psychology, you interview a patient who is unable to distinguish between living and nonliving things. The most likely cause is damage to the patient's ______.
A. frontal lobe B. inferior parietal cortex C. visual cortex D. inferior temporal cortex
What did Carl Rogers view as a cause of most personal difficulties?
A. reinforcement of maladaptive behavior patterns B. unrealistic modes of thought employed by many people C. mismatch between an individual's ideal self and real self D. unresolved unconscious conflicts occurring between the id and superego