psy chapter 6-9 true or false – Flashcards
Unlock all answers in this set
Unlock answersquestion
advertisers can powerfully shape our buying habits through subliminal messages.
answer
F
question
is we stare at a green square for a while and then look at a white sheet of pater, we see red
answer
T
question
infants just learning to crawl do not perceive depth
answer
F
question
persons who have sight in only one eye are totally unable to gauge distance
answer
F
question
a person who is born blind but gains sight as an adult cannot recognize objects that were familiar by touch
answer
T
question
if required to look through a pair of glasses that turns the world upside down, we soon adapt and coordinate our movements without difficulty
answer
T
question
touching adjacent cold and pressure spots triggers a sense of wetness
answer
T
question
people who are born without the ability to feel pain may die by early adulthood
answer
T
question
without their smells a cold cup of coffee may be hard to distinguish from a glasss of red wine
answer
T
question
laboratory evidence clearly indinticates that some people do have ESP
answer
F
question
lowly animals, like sea slugs, behave by instants and are incapable of learning.
answer
F
question
humans are the only animals that can learn behaviors merely by observing others perform them.
answer
F
question
the study of inner thoughts, feelings, and motives has always occupied a central place in psychology .
answer
F
question
a person can be more readily conditioned to dislike a particular food than to dislike the place where the food was eaten
answer
T
question
with training pigeons can be taught to discriminate between bach's music and Stravinsky's.
answer
T
question
navigate reinforcement is another term for punishment.
answer
F
question
psychologists agree that punishment, regardless of its form, has little effect on behavior.
answer
F
question
animals are only when rewards are given.
answer
F
question
animals can learn to make virtually any response if consistent rewarded for it.
answer
F
question
research indicates that televised violence leads to aggressive behavior by children and teenagers who watch the programs.
answer
T
question
memory strange is never automatic:it always takes effect
answer
F
question
the DAY AFTER YOU ARE INTRODUCED TO A NUMBER OF NEW CO-WORKERRS, YOU WILL more easily recall the names of those you met first
answer
T
question
memory aids are more useful than simple rehearsal of info
answer
F
question
only a few people have any type of photography memory
answer
F
question
although our capacity for strong info is large, we are still limited in the number permeant memories we can form
answer
F
question
we store info in memory as library's store their books, that, in discrete precise location
answer
F
question
when people learn something while intoxicated, they recall it best when they are again intoxicated
answer
T
question
the hour before sleep is a good time to commit info to memory
answer
T
question
repeatedly imagining a nonexistent event can lead us to believe it acucatlly happened
answer
T
question
children typically will repress any memory of having seen one of their parents being murdered
answer
F
question
in general, people underestimate how much they really know.
answer
F
question
it takes less compelling evidence to change our beliefs than it did to create then in the first place.
answer
F
question
that babbling of an infant at 4 months of age makes it clear wether the infant is FRENCH, KOREN,OR ETHIOPIAN.
answer
F
question
many bilingual report that they have differences senses of self, depending on which language they are using .
answer
T
question
imagining a physical activity triggers actions in the same brain areas that are triggered when actually performing that activity.
answer
T
question
only human began seem capable of insight
answer
F
question
apes are capable of communicating meaning by using symbols
answer
F
question
research suggests that a common ingredient of expert performance in chess, dancing, sports and music is about a decade of intense daily practice
answer
F
question
the concern with individuals differences in intelligence is striclrty a twenty century American phenomenon
answer
F
question
as adopted children grow older,theri intelleginces score became more similar to those of their biological parents than those of their adpodetd patrons
answer
T
