Researchers attribute the link between alcohol and suicide to a condition that is characterized by a constriction of cognitive and perceptual processes and narrowing a person's focus on their personal problems. This explanation of the effects of alcohol on suicide is called ____

According to a study discussed in your textbook, participants performing a lexical decision task were able to identify strings of letters such as "nutcracker" and "reindeer" as being real words faster in December than other times of the year

This indicates that the holiday season creates a ____________ effect for related certain words. A) sentence verification B) linguistic relativity C) priming D) categorization

In one study, participants were exposed to negative information about their favorite Presidential candidate. Results indicate that brain areas associated with ______ were more active

A) logical thinking B) ignoring or suppressing information C) emotional reactivity D) linguistic processing