The hallmark of normal waking consciousness is the highly selective nature of attention

a. True
b. False


Answer: a

Psychology

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A. Distributive justice B. Emotional display rules C. Moral rules D. Benevolence

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A student failed miserably when taking a course through correspondence, but she excels when repeating the course with a live tutor. Her improved grade reflects her learning

a. within a phylogenetic context. b. in the zone of proximal development. c. as it was liberated from the A-not-B error. d. in which assimilation and accommodation are balanced.

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The tendency to attribute your success to dispositional factors and your failures to situational factors is called

a. the self-fulfilling prophecy. b. the self-serving bias. c. the fundamental attribution error. d. in-group bias.

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School-age children master concrete operational tasks __________

A) all at once B) gradually, in a continuum of acquisition C) much later than Piaget believed D) after they master abstract thinking

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