A research team is studying which parts of the brain are active when a participant looks at a photograph of a person, and tries to judge how intelligent that person is. This kind of study is an example of
a. the artificial intelligence approach.
b. the information-processing approach.
c. social cognitive neuroscience.
d. computer simulation
Question 2Research on people with brain lesions
a. usually focuses on the way that isolated nerve cells function.
b. emphasizes that most people who have had strokes won't ever recover the ability to perform a cognitive task.
c. is a relatively recent neuroscience approach to cognition.
d. studies people who cannot perform specific cognitive tasks after they have had a stroke, tumor, or accident.
Question 3According to the principle of ecological validity,
a. experiments should be as carefully controlled as possible, in order to avoid confounding variables.
b. laboratory settings should be employed whenever possible.
c. behavior should be initially studied in its simplest, most basic form; more complex kinds of behavior should be studied later on.
d. experiments should be conducted that will have some application to experience outside the laboratory
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