Suppose that it is Friday night, that Xavier and her friends have been out at a party, and that they are now heading home. Suppose also that Xavier has had a little bit to drink, but not a lot. Is it safe for her to drive home or should she call a cab instead? How will she decide what to do? According to the risk-as-feelings hypothesis, ____
a. her current mood will influence her assessment of risk (e.g., if she is in a relatively good mood, she will see relatively little danger in driving)
b. she will consult her friends and see what their feelings are about the issue
c. she will consider the worst possible scenario, and then simply make a decision based on her gut
d. she will recall the last time that she was in this situation, what she did, and how she felt about it. She will then let that recollection guide her decision
C
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a. ?quickly followed in his footsteps b. ?incorporated his new ideas into their own approaches c. ?tried their best to convince him to stay in England and add the new approaches he had learned to the department of philosophy d. ?were skeptical of the use of scientific approaches to philosophical questions e. ?None of the choices are correct
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a. same thing as their genotype c. result of environmental factors only b. result of inheritance only d. same thing as their phenotype
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c. negative correlation. d. causal correlation.
The brain and the spinal cord make up the
a. peripheral nervous system. b. central nervous system. c. cerebellum. d. brain stem. e. primary nervous system.