In the crowded bar, Karl is telling Sean about an argument he had with his girlfriend
Despite the other conversations going on around them Sean is having no difficulty
attending to what Karl is saying. This is an example of
a. dichotic listening.
b. shadowing.
c. implicit memory.
d. inhibition of return.
e. the cocktail-party phenomenon.
e. the cocktail-party phenomenon.
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When television was introduced to the island of Fiji,
a. normally thin girls developed the strong desire to gain weight. b. normally thin boys developed the strong desire to gain weight. c. girls who had seen a plump body as a status symbol developed the strong desire to lose weight. d. boys who had seen a plump body as a status symbol developed the strong desire to lose weight.
Regina wakes her husband in the middle of the night and tells him, “Where am I? This isn’t our bedroom.” After a visit to the emergency room, Regina learns that she likely suffered a partial seizure originating in her ____ lobe
a. ?temporal b. ?parietal c. ?occipital d. ?frontal
Which of the following statements best summarizes the relations between attitudes and behavior in Fazio and Williams’s (1986) examination of attitudes toward U.S. presidential candidates?
a. Attitudes were weak predictors of actual voting behavior b. Attitudes were strong predictors of actual voting behavior, but only when the attitudes were easy to retrieve from memory c. Attitudes were strong predictors of actual voting behavior, but they were even stronger predictors when the attitudes were more accessible from memory. d. Attitudes were strong predictors of actual voting behavior, but more so when attitudes were highly accessible and held with high certainty.
Long-term potentiation (LTP) a. always involves the neurotransmitter glutamate, and only occurs in the hippocampus
b. always involves the neurotransmitter glutamate, and occurs in many areas of the central nervous system. c. involves a variety of neurotransmitters, but only occurs in the hippocampus. d. involves a variety of neurotransmitters, and occurs in many areas of the central nervous system.