You caution a friend about eating so many foods that are high in fat content
Your friend replies that his grandfather ate all the bacon and cheese he wanted, and he lived to be 93. Which of the following is the BEST explanation for your friend's error in reasoning?
a. the Barnum effect
b. the use of individual cases
c. the self-fulfilling prophecy
d. the fallacy of negative instances
ANSWER: b
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A. 25-43% B. 37-60% C. 50-79% D. 62-85%
In an experiment involving a monkey, it was found (Georgopoulos et al. 1989) that during the few milliseconds prior to a "mental rotation task," minute activity in the motor cortex suggested that individual cells:
A) have time ordered sequences B) have auditory reactions to rotated objects C) have directional preferences D) have three dimensional geometric structures E) respond during any task involving mental rotation
The posterior auditory stream terminates in the ________ and is involved in ________
A) posterior parietal cortex; complex sound analysis B) posterior occipital cortex; sound localization C) parabelt region of the anterior temporal region; complex sound analysis D) parabelt region of the anterior temporal region; sound localization E) posterior parietal cortex; sound localization
In a strong situation, we expect to observe
A) large personality differences in how people respond. B) almost no personality differences in how people respond. C) some personality differences, depending on the traits. D) acquiescence.