A flawed belief that physicians had about anyone who was vegetative was that the individual ________.

A. shows signs of awareness without wakefulness
B. does not react to stimuli from the environment
C. reacts to external forces
D. shows signs of motoric response

Answer: B

Psychology

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a. experimental realism b. ecological validity c. discontinuity in vision d. visual persistence

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According to Hobson and McCarley, dreams are more primitive and more bizarre than daytime thoughts because

a. dreaming provides an outlet for repressed thoughts and unfulfilled wishes. b. the frontal areas of the cortex, which control higher mental abilities, are mostly shut down during REM sleep. c. the id part of the personality is expressed more strongly during sleep. d. of lucid dreaming.

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