James is talking to Lara about a missed opportunity. He says "If only I hadn't missed the deadline for applying, I would have had the job of my dreams right now." This is an example of ______.
A. everyday reasoning
B. deductive reasoning
C. inductive reasoning
D. counterfactual thinking
Answer: D
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Imagine an experiment where the mean of the experimental group is 50 and the mean of the control group is 40. Given that the two means are obviously different,
is it still possible for a researcher to say that the two groups are not significantly different? a. Yes, the two groups could overlap so much that the difference was not significant. b. Yes, if the difference was not predicted by the hypothesis. c. No, because the two groups are clearly far too different for the difference to not be significant. d. There is not enough information to answer this question
Following exocytosis, it is very important for calcium to be
A. pumped out of the axon terminal. B. recaptured from the extracellular fluid. C. returned to synaptic vesicles. D. allowed to diffuse from the axon terminal back toward the cell body.
The absence of a complete description of abstract grammatical structures
A) supports the existence of Chomsky's LAD. B) casts doubt that one set of rules can account for the multiplicity of grammatical forms. C) provides clear evidence that children are naturally skilled at linking grammatical rules with strings of words. D) supports the behaviorist perspective of language development.
The idea that pain signals must pass through a type of "doorway" in the spinal cord is referred to as the ________
a) opponent-process theory of pain
b) revolving door theory of pain
c) substance P theory of pain
d) gate-control theory of pain