Reasons that take support away from a conclusion are called
a. fallacies.
b. premises.
c. assumptions.
d. counterarguments.
D
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a. East Asian participants use a greater percentage of their frontal and parietal regions when making judgments than do American participants. b. Neither East Asian nor American participants are able to overcome their typical, learned ways of attending to (or overlooking) context. c. Participants from both cultures demonstrate greater activation in higher-order cortical regions when asked to perceive objects in a way that is unusual for them. d. Social neuroscience data provide no support for the hypothesis that holistic versus analytic thinking styles tend to vary by cultural background.
According to Freud, what is the most important determinant of behaviour?
a) Conscious b) Pre-conscious c) Unconscious d) All are equally important