Which statement is MOST accurate with respect to the current study of consciousness in psychology?
a) Brains scans provide a subjective method of studying conciousness
b) Understanding conscious experience is now an important goal in psychology
c) Psychologists have revived and refined introspection as a way to study consciousness.
d) Recent technological advances have failed to offer much insight into consciousness.
Answer: b) Understanding conscious experience is now an important goal in psychology
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a. this heuristic is consistently more accurate than the representativeness heuristic. b. we use this heuristic when we try to estimate probability by thinking of relevant examples. c. this heuristic emphasizes that we ignore the conjunction fallacy. d. this heuristic explains why we typically provide confidence intervals that are too narrow.
One of the most influential researchers of eyewitness memory, whose work was discussed in your textbook, has been ______
a) Donald Broadbent b) George Sperling c) Elizabeth Loftus d) Anne Treisman