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| Which of the following is the process of detecting environmental stimuli and converting them into signals that can be detected by the nervous system | sensations
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| Which of the following is the best definition for ABSOLUTE THRESHOLD | The lowest strength of a stimulus that a person can detect 50% of the time
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| The fact that Helena can recognize her teacher back home more easily than in Paris best demonstrates what concept | Perceptual set
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| eye-to-brain pathway of vision | Retina, optic nerve, thalamus, occipital lobe
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| best example of synesthesia? | Anastasia sees swirls of color when she hears music because stimulation of one sensory pathway leads to the experience of another sensation.
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| Denise has damaged her auditory nerve and now has difficulty understanding what people are saying. Which of the following descriptions explains how that damage impairs her hearing | Sound messages fail to be transmitted directly to the brain.
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| Marlene had an infection that led to deafness in her left ear. Which of the following will be the most likely impact of losing her hearing in her left ear | She will have trouble locating the source of sounds.
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| Human tactile sense is actually a mix of which of the following distinct skin senses | Pressure, warmth, cold, pain
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| According to the gate control theory of pain, which of the following contains a neurological gate that controls the transmission of pain messages to the brain? | The spinal cord
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| what is a type of biological predisposition | taste aversion
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| The best example of a biological predisposition to learning is which of the following | After Ted got sick from eating sushi from the deli, he became nauseous whenever he thought of eating sushi.
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| Dr. Sampson follows the structuralist school of thought. Her techniques would most likely include | presenting a participant with an object, such as a can of soda, and having the subject report his or her perceptions or experience of the can
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| presenting a participant with an object, such as a can of soda, and having the subject report his or her perceptions or experience of the can is an example of | introspection
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| what is an control condition | the standard condition against which other, new, conditions can be measured.
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| experiment shows | cause and effect
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| The benefit of using inferential statistics is that it allows a researcher to | make generalizations about a population
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| What effect do agonists have | They increase the likelihood that a postsynaptic neuron will fire.
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| In his study, participants focused on a dot in the center of a computer screen and objects are presented in either the left or right visual field. After seeing the object, the participants named the object. | cause the connection between the right visual cortex and language center has been severed, split-brain patients are not able to retrieve the name of objects seen in the left visual field.
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| what is creative intelligence | using one’s prior experiences to help solve new problems.
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| Reliability is crucial to establishing | validity
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| reward learning | opreant conditioning
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| Over the course of the week, the researchers observed the gross and fine motor skills of all the children. After reviewing the data, the researchers were able to conclude that | young children master gross motor skills more quickly than fine motor skills
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| Which of the following scenarios best illustrates Jean Piaget’s theory of cognitive development? | Jimmy, an infant, is learning about the world by exploring with his hands and his mouth.
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