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Question number: 206
» Lifespan Development » Physical and Motor
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Which of the following pairs of items is incorrectly associated?
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| a. | intellectual development |
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| b. | emotional development |
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| c. | motor development |
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| d. | physical development |
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| e. | All a. , b. , c. and d. are correct |
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Question number: 207
» Sensation and Perception » Psychophysics, Signal Detection
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Weber’s law applies to a specific range of intensities in
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| e. | All of the above |
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Question number: 208
» Thinking » Representation (Categorization, Imagery, Schemas, Scripts)
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The most common way of studying human cognitive processing is to evaluate
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| a. | Reaction time |
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| b. | Rehearsal time |
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| c. | semantic shifts |
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| d. | EEG readings |
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| e. | Creativity |
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Question number: 209
» Behavioral Neuroscience » Central Structures and Processes
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Recent studies of brain-injured persons have demonstrated that there are two distinct types of “mental images. ” They are
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| a. | primary process and secondary process |
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| b. | REM and NREM |
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| c. | verbal and pictorial |
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| d. | left brain and right brain |
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| e. | spatial and pictorial |
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Question number: 210
» General Psychology » History
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Dan has difficulty with dating. Whenever his friends point out a woman they think he should approach, he finds himself thinking about how she will probably reject him. As a result, he rarely asks anyone out, and he complains to his friends that women don’t like “nice guys. ” A cognitive psychologist would probably say that Dan should
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| a. | work towards what is most important to him rather than focusing on his friends’ ideas of what is attractive or on their insistence that he find someone to date. |
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| b. | use free association to explore long-forgotten childhood experiences and traumas. |
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| c. | understand what involves him away from the pattern |
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| d. | examine his childhood experiences for the source of his lack of confidence. |
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| e. | examine his thoughts and actions to see what keeps him stuck in this pattern. |
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