A woman who is a new mother is also a deep sleeper. Yet, when her newborn son cries in the middle of the night, she awakens quickly. The mother's response is most directly due to the presence of

a. dichotic listening.
b. apparent motion.
c. the law of proximity.
d. a perceptual set.

Answer: d. a perceptual set.

Psychology

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Traditional psychotherapy attempts to influence or change personality in order to bring behavior change, while Behaviorists believe that

A) if you treat the problem behavior, personality will take care of itself. B) personality doesn't change. C) you have to tend to the unconscious. D) behavior changes bring about personality changes.

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Dr. Pasantes is investigating how the brain regulates patterns of eating behavior. She performs an experiment and finds that lesioning a particular brain region causes rodents to completely stop eating. What area of the brain has Dr. Pasantes lesioned??

a. ?the lateral hypothalamus b. ?the ventromedial hypothalamus c. ?the lateral amygdala d. ?the ventromedial amygdala

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