A recent study using photos of professional baseball players appeared to indicate that people who experience positive emotions _____________ than those who experience fewer positive emotions
a. are more productive at work
b. live longer
c. are more athletic
d. are more likely to be excellent baseball players
B
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Which of these is evidence against the idea that feature detectors explain everything about vision?
a. The waterfall illusion b. Reversible figures c. Color vision deficiency d. Recordings from neurons in the visual cortex
Giving different responses to the same stimuli to which you were classically conditioned illustrates ____________
a. response generalization b. spontaneous recovery c. stimulus generalization d. vicarious conditioning
Madeline is working to teach her 4-year-old daughter, Eliza, how to count. She places 10 buttons in one row with very little space between the buttons, and 8 buttons in another row with more space between the buttons; therefore, the second row is longer than the first. Then Madeline asks her daughter which row has more buttons. Inevitably, Eliza chooses the second row, even though she knows that 10 is more than 8. What is this an example of?
a) symbolic functioning b) concrete operations c) preoperational functioning d) centration
A child's sensitivity to the feelings of others is called _____
A) self-reliance B) empathy C) ethnocentrism D) egotism