Suppose that you are nearly mugged while walking down a crowded city street. Your body quickly reacts. Your heart rate speeds up, your breathing becomes more intense, and you feel pumped up to either attack the mugger or flee the scene. It would be most accurate to say that your ____ was activated in this situation

When Bethany steps on her digital scale, a mechanism in it measures the physical pressure pushing down on the scale and converts it into an electrical signal that can be read by the scale

. The converting of the physical pressure on the scale caused by Bethany's weight into an electrical signal is similar to the process of ____________. A) transduction B) bottom-up processing C) top-down processing D) perception

Which of the following illustrates how cognitive variables may act to maintain acquired fears?

A. Jane no longer went to the park due to her fear of dogs. B. Karen would think happy thoughts whenever she drove over a bridge. C. Ryan's fear of heights caused him to obsess over how high up he was in a building. D. Melvin knew that his heart was racing because he was afraid.