While playing a video game, you guide your character through a make-believe world, avoiding some objects and picking up others, while responding to various events. This extremely rapid process of description, elaboration, decision, planning, and action illustrates
A. an artificial concept.
B. mental chronometry.
C. a mental model.
D. the circle of thought.
Answer: D
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a. sexual harassment. b. age discrimination. c. comparable worth. d. a glass ceiling.
Often when a newborn baby is brought home from the hospital, the preschool sibling will begin to exhibit behaviors, such as sucking his or her thumb or wetting the bed. These reactions illustrate which defense mechanism?
a. compensation b. repression c. reaction formation d. regression
When we have an interest in something, we are especially likely to perceive it
Indicate whether this statement is true or false.
Because adoption studies cannot completely control for the influence of the prenatal or early postnatal environment, animal researchers have tried to get around this problem by using the technique of:
a. In vitro fertilization b. In vivo fertilization c. Embryo donation d. Cross-fostering