People who are raised in Western cultures primarily see buildings that are rectangular or square in shape. Based on these experiences, what is true about their visual processing?
A. They tend to ignore right angles.
B. They have few cells in the visual cortex that respond to vertical lines.
C. They have many cells in the visual cortex that respond to horizontal and vertical lines.
D. They have many cells in the visual cortex that respond to diagonal lines.
Answer: C
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A. reflects their capacity to flexibly form novel sentences that follow subject-verb and verb-object relations B. display gross grammatical errors , such as "book my" instead of "my book" C. largely involve combining new verbs with nouns they know well D. are usually copies of adult two-word pairings rather than flexibly grammatical constructions
Marion started out on the basketball team in middle school, but after two years on the team, she switched to track. Research shows that most children
a. may switch sports one or more times during childhood. b. become disinterested in sports after switching from one sport to another. c. choose a sport and stick with it during childhood. d. play the sport in which they are most likely to win.
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a. It releases testosterone. b. It signals the pituitary gland. c. It releases gonadotropins. d. It enlarges the gonads.