By inserting tiny microelectrodes into single cells in the visual cortex of cats, Hubel and Wiesel were able to determine __________
a) cats cannot see red.
b) each neuron responded only to specific patterns.
c) all cats are color blind.
d) cats have specialized ‘mouse receptors.'
b
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How could the illusory-correlation effect produce a stereotype?
a. People use the prospect theory to predict the likelihood of the stereotype. b. People use the representativeness heuristic to determine whether a particular stereotype seems likely for a particular group of people. c. People pay too much attention to a group of people who have a particular combination of characteristics, and they ignore the other three possible combinations of characteristics. d. People overemphasize the estimate provided by anchor, and they pay too little attention to bottom-up processing.
A person who is designated to make treatment decisions on behalf of a dying person in the event of incapacitation is a(n) _____
a. health care proxy b. advance director c. patient-doctor liaison d. health-care lawyer