In completing a multistep mental arithmetic task, male participants show more activation in their right occipital area than do female participants. This difference highlights gender differences in ______.
A. brain strategies to achieve comparable results
B. calculation accuracy
C. speed of calculation
D. mathematical abilities
Answer: A
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a. correlations are more effective at addressing the issue of cause. b. of ethical concerns. c. correlational research is significantly more scientifically rigorous. d. of the availability of computers.
Operant conditioning procedures focus on changing behaviour using:
A) systematic desensitization. B) positive reinforcement only. C) reinforcement and punishment. D) learned associations between conditioned and unconditioned stimuli.
Which of the following statements best captures the relationship between informational social influence and eyewitness performance in legal proceedings?
a. Because the stakes are so high in a criminal trial, eyewitnesses do not conform to informational social influence. b. Eyewitnesses are encouraged to use informational social influence in providing their testimony at trial. c. The legal system often takes steps to prevent conformity to informational social influence among eyewitnesses. d. Informational social influence always makes eyewitnesses more accurate.
Which pathway is associated with detecting motion?
A. magnocellular B. parvocellular C. koniocellular D. ochlearcellular