The part of the brain stem that regulates vital activities such as heartbeat, breathing, and digestion is the

a. cerebellum

Dolores, a college freshman, has moved to a big city for the first time in her life. She is excited by the opportunity to explore the city, but is also anxious about what she read recently about street crime in one of the city's neighborhoods. In reality, she is more at risk of harm from reckless drivers. What heuristic is she applying is this situation?

a. representativeness heuristic b. availability heuristic c. affect heuristic d. recognition heuristic

"The whole is more than the sum of its parts" actually means

a. there is more to perception than meets the eye. b. that people have an innate tendency to organize the elements of a stimulus into a whole object. c. the meaning of a visual stimulus cannot be recognized by mere analysis of its separate elements. d. that human perception is more than the activities that compose it, such as thinking and planning. e. in order to perceive an entire stimulus, more modules of the primary visual cortex are involved than to perceive individual elements of the stimulus.