Professor DeVeaux reads an essay in which a student argues in favor of full nuclear war to resolve the conflict in the Middle East. Initially she thinks,
"Whoa, what an extremist!" Then she recalls that the student had been assigned to advocate nuclear war as part of the assignment. Why would Professor DeVeaux still be likely to view the student as a political extremist?
a. Although she adjusted her beliefs, she did not adjust them enough to fully account for the power of the situation.
b. Because, as research has shown, people who put extreme beliefs in writing tend to actually believe in them more strongly.
c. Clearly this student is an extremist, as demonstrated by the essay he or she wrote.
d. She has already formed a stereotype about this student, and will have difficulty adjusting it quickly.
Answer: A
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An expert on media violence has been asked to testify before Congress. What is she likely to say concerning violence on television?
a) Television violence is sanitized, so there is little blood, gore, or pain. b) The violence on television is not different than the reports of violence that we see and hear on television. c) Most children nowadays are accustomed to dealing with fantasy via various forms of media and understand the concept and content of media violence. d) The message tends to work two ways – it can increase violence or it can decrease violence because of the graphic nature of much of the television violence.
Converting important features of the world into neural messages understood by the brain is called
a. sensory coding. b. sensory accommodation. c. sensory adaptation. d. sensory gating.