Your best friend is trying to sneak up on you, but you note some movement coming up behind you on your left side
You spin around and scare her instead. Your ability to detect this movement is due to the large number of rods that lie 20 degrees from the center of the retina and demonstrates your excellent vision.
a. extrasensory
b. color
c. peripheral
d. kinesthetic
ANSWER: c
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a. Passive gene-environment interactions b. Incomplete dominance c. Niche-picking d. Polygenetic inheritance
Gianna was coming home from work and could not help but notice the young woman who seemed to be driving in a reckless manner
She immediately wondered if the girl was in an emergency or if something important was going on to make her drive like that. Gianna just made a(n) A) internal attribution. B) dispositional attribution. C) external attribution. D) impression attribution.
Which of the following statements is true about speech perception?
A) Not until the end of the second year can toddlers "screen out" sounds not used in their native tongue. B) Between 6 and 8 months, babies start to "screen out" sounds not used in their native tongue. C) Young infants listen longer to nonspeech sounds than to human speech. D) Newborns prefer speech that is fast, low-pitched, and monotone.
It was standard practice in hospitals in Western countries from the 1930s through the 1960s to ______
a. heavily medicate women in labor b. encourage women in labor to deliver at home c. prevent women from entering hospitals until active labor d. have a drug-free labor