Exam 7: Environmental Influences on Behavior, and Reflections on Nature and Nurture

A visual perception track enables most people to recognize objects at nearly the same time that a visual action track enables them to avoid bumping into the objects.This best illustrates

Cognitive neuroscience is most directly concerned with studying

When it first emerged as a field of study,psychology was defined as the

Since 1960,psychology has regained an interest in consciousness as psychologists of all persuasions began affirming the importance of

Brandon is talking on his cell phone while driving on the interstate.While this is dangerous and accounts for 28 percent of traffic accidents,his behavior is not unique.About ________ percent of drivers admit to texting or talking on their phone while driving.

Focusing conscious awareness on a particular stimulus is called

Texting and talking on the cell phone while driving is responsible for ________ percent of traffic accidents.

One of the six criminal suspects in a police lineup immediately captured observers' attention because he was the only suspect with black skin color.This best illustrates

One study simultaneously delivered a recording of men talking in participants' one ear and a recording of women talking in participants' other ear.When participants were assigned to pay attention to the women,70 percent failed to hear one of the men repeatedly say "I'm a gorilla." This failure best illustrated

Adding two large numbers together by consciously focusing on and solving each subcomponent of the task in serial order best illustrates

Ashley is driving to the mall with a group of friends.They are talking and listening to the radio and even taking pictures to post on social media.Based on research,activity in brain areas that are vital for driving have decreased about ________ percent for Ashley.

While driving to work,John was so focused on his cell-phone conversation that he inadvertently drove through a red light and hit another vehicle.John's experience best illustrates the impact of

The ability to consciously recognize and name the color of an object while we simultaneously and unconsciously monitor the object's shape and movement illustrates

The simultaneous processing of information on many parallel tracks is most closely associated with

A bank teller was so distracted by the sight of a bank robber's weapon that she failed to perceive important features of the criminal's physical appearance.This best illustrates the impact of

The two-track mind operates on two levels.A conscious "high road" is said to be________.An unconscious "low road" is said to be ________.

Our inability to consciously process all the sensory information available to us at any single point in time best illustrates the need for

Selective attention is best illustrated by

The possibility that our mental state might have a direct impact on our actions was most clearly dismissed by

In two phone interview experiments,most participants failed to notice that the female interviewer to whom they were responding changed after the third question of the interview.This best illustrated