While at the zoo with his parents, young Jonah looks at a large snail behind a glass display. He looks up at his mother and, much to her surprise, says, "Mommy, that looks just like part of a human being's ear!" To which ear structure is Jonah referring?
a) the semicircular canals
b) the basilar membrane
c) the primary ossicle
d) the cochlea
ANS: D, The cochlea is a coiled tube that resembles a snail shell, and it houses the basilar membrane which is important for our ability to hear.
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a. ? = 70 and ? = 15 b. ? = 60 and ? = 5 c. ? = 60 and ? = 10 d. ? = 70 and ? = 5
According to the discussion of schemas in Chapter 8,
a. a schema applies to your generalized knowledge, such as knowledge about how to register for classes at your college. b. a schema can be divided into smaller units of knowledge, called "scripts." c. each person in a particular culture has a schema for an everyday event that is very different from other people's schemas for that event. d. in most cases, a schema can be directly converted to an exemplar.