In the image below, the part of the brain labeled with the number ______ is most strongly associated with intelligence.
Greg recently had a stroke. Greg’s neurologist noticed that…
Greg recently had a stroke. Greg’s neurologist noticed that although Greg didn’t have any true blindness, he was frequently failing to notice items in his left visual field. The neurologist thus diagnosed Greg with hemineglect. The area of Greg’s brain that is most likely to have been damaged by the stroke is labeled ____ in the diagram below.
When Yuri entered college, his political beliefs were somewh…
When Yuri entered college, his political beliefs were somewhat liberal. On a scale from -1 (most conservative) to 1 (most liberal), Yuri would have been about a 0.5. During his first year in college, Yuri joined a number of student organizations that were made up of members that were all also somewhat liberal. At the end of his four years in college, Yuri’s political beliefs had become even more liberal than when he started college. On the same scale as above, he would now be about a 0.9. Now, when Yuri thinks back to himself as a first-year college student, he remembers himself being much more politically liberal than he truly was at that time. Yuri’s distorted memories are consistent with what issue in human memory?
A researcher is choosing a personality measure to use in a s…
A researcher is choosing a personality measure to use in a study involving topics of depression and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. Which of the tools we covered would directly address these topics?
A patient who has suffered total damage to the part of the b…
A patient who has suffered total damage to the part of the brain labeled with a ‘4’ in the image below would be most likely to show which of the following symptoms?
Primary visual cortex is found in the ________ lobe. Primary…
Primary visual cortex is found in the ________ lobe. Primary auditory cortex is found in the _______ lobe.
Sarah and Michelle are talking before class. There are 350 p…
Sarah and Michelle are talking before class. There are 350 people in the lecture hall and lots of different conversations happening. Sarah suddenly says, “Hey, that person over there said their name is Gethin. That’s my dad’s name! It’s a traditional name in Wales where my family is from.” Michelle says, “I didn’t hear that. Who said their name is Gethin?” The fact that Sarah noticed a conversation that had a word that was important in her family, but Michelle did not notice that conversation is most consistent with what model of attention?
When considering sources of stress, what is the name of the…
When considering sources of stress, what is the name of the source that would include waiting in traffic while commuting or having a co-worker who always types on their keyboard extremely loudly?
Greta is a researcher interested in whether science vocabula…
Greta is a researcher interested in whether science vocabulary supports science learning. In 2002, Greta measured the number of science words that 100 different 5-year-old children knew. Twelve years later, in 2019, those 100 children are now graduating high school and they just took a standardized science test. Greta asks them if she can access their scores on the standardized science test and all 100 individuals agreed. When Greta plots the number of science words the 100 individuals knew at age 5 against the individuals’ scores on the standardized science test at age 17, she observed the following graph: Greta’s data indicates that there is ____________ between science vocabulary at age 5 and standardized science test performance at age 17.
The nurse is preparing to administer levonorgestral. This me…
The nurse is preparing to administer levonorgestral. This medication is being given to: