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PHIL 347N Week 6 Checkpoint Quiz What are the three fundamental reasoning strategies listed in the text? What is comparative reasoning? On what skill is it based? We learned four tests for evaluating arguments: truthfulness of the premises, logical strength, relevance, and non-circularity. How well do these tests work with respect to evaluating comparative reasoning? Consider each of the four tests. What are the five criteria for evaluating comparative reasoning? Name and define them in yo...

Blackpowder is an example of a ____? A.High explosive B.Low explosive C.Flammable liquid D.Caustic explosive Answer Key: B Question 2 of 25 4.0/ 4.0 Points Which explosive is considered to be the first composite explosive developed? A.Gunpowder and/or Blackpowder B.Poudre B C.Greek Fire D.Saltpeter Answer Key: A Question 3 of 25 4.0/ 4.0 Points An explosive is a substance capable of producing an explosion by its own ______. A.Matter B.Structure C.Density D.Energy Answer Key: D...

PSYC 300 Final Exam 2

PSYC 300 Week 8 Final Exam 2 PSYC300 Week 8 Final Exam Answers To a historical researcher studying the lives of women pioneers in the late 1880s, letters written by Deloris Adams of Philadelphia, describing the life of her sister, Rebecca Adams, a pioneer woman on the Nebraska plains, represent: In regard to bias in historical research, the researcher: Observational research, as a form of descriptive research, Correlational research allows the researcher to answer questions such as: A rese...

What is needed so a person can focus on a specific stimulus in the environment? 2. The physiological level of analysis involves the relationship between 3. Cognitive influences a?ect which level of analysis 4. The "S" in the Weber fraction stands for 5. Fechner's psychophysical methods 6. The major dependent variable used in the visual search method is 7. The theory that accounts for response criterion in a a detection experiment is 8. Our perception of the environment depends on 9. T...

Tong used binocular rivalry to test brain response when the person perceived a house or a face. When the person perceived the house, activity in the increased. 2. Kamitani and Tong's orientation decorder was able to correctly predict what orientation a person was loooking at on % of the trials. 3. One aspect of the visual system that helps us achieve selective attention is 4. The incidence of change blindness when a cue is added to the scene that indicates which part of the scene has changed...

"Viewpoint invariance" means 2. Gestalt laws are more accurately described as heuristics because they 3. is the proposed reason why VI neurons can make figure-ground discriminations. 4. When Palmer (1975) showed observers a kitchen scene and then a target picture, which picture was identified correctly 80% of the time? 5. The relationship between environmental regularities, physiology, and perception is most likely established by 6. A cell in area VI of a monkey is shown to f...

1. Visible light is between and nm within the electromagnetic spectrum. 2. Lateral inhibition can be used to explain 3. The rod-cone break in the dark adaptation curve occurs after what time period in the dark. 4. The blind spot is located 5. According to Goldstein, the evolutionary explanation of neural specialization is 6. The Hecht et al. (1942) study is important because 7. Light can be described in terms of wavelength, or as consisting of small packets of energy called ...

SOCI 332 / SOCI332 Assignment 2

PSYC 502 Week 3 Knowledge Review LUO When talking about errors in terms of psychological testing, we are referring to the fact that: If we repeatedly administered the same test to the same individual, the standard deviation of the person’s score would be the If you have three clocks in your house, and every clock is 10 minutes fast, this is an example of Theoretically, reliability is When creating a test, one generally uses a subset of items to represent a larger construct. This is know...