Wundt and his students found that it took a subject about one-tenth of a second longer to respond to a stimulus when concentrating attention on the expected stimulus, as opposed to when concentrating on the required response. To what process did they attribute the extra time?

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(a) "Brandon is a huge fan of the San Francisco Giants. If he sees anything at all with the SF Giant's logo on it, a shirt, a coffee cup, a banner, you know Brandon is going to want to buy it." (b) "There is always another way to tweak the artwork this way or that. But we have to get the marketing materials to the conference soon. So I say that the design is good to go." (c) "I never get a flu shot. When I was a kid I had a terrible infection and the doctor gave me a hypo of penicillin right in the butt. Wow did that hurt!" (d) "This year two of the people in our office died. One was hit by a drunk driver last summer when he was out biking, and the other had a fatal heart attack while shoveling snow. We all worked in the same office, reported to the same boss, and both of them were about my age. Makes me not want to do anything that is physically exerting." (e) "The prosecuting attorney pointed at the accused and said, ‘For a man like him, raised in his religious culture, it is a huge dishonor if a wife is not totally subservient to her husband. That is how we know that the defendant is guilty of murder. I say that he is the one who beat his wife to death. His motive was that he thought she had somehow dishonored him."

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In your opinion, does it make a difference for our reading of Heidegger that he was a member of the Nazi party? Why or why not?

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Technician A says a restriction at point "A" would cause a high high-side pressure and a low low-side pressure. Technician B says a restriction at "B" would cause low high-side pressure and low low-side pressure. Who is correct?

A. Technician A only B. Technician B only C. Both A and B D. Neither A nor B

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Students should major in economics; they will be in great demand when the economy recovers

a. Argument b. Not an argument because there are no claims or only one claim. c. Not an argument because none of the claims offer a reason for the other. d. Not an argument because the reasons explain rather than prove the other claims.

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