According to the educator Nel Noddings,critical thought should not only be limited to reason,but should also involve empathy and caring for others.

A concern that was a major factor for persons in Oregon who chose physician-assisted suicide was ______.

A) being unhappy living alone with a medical condition
B) lack of understanding about their medical condition
C) having less than a year to live because of a medical condition
D) loss of dignity due to the medical condition

In a study reported in your text (Feng, Spence, & Pratt, 2007) , male and female participants played a video game for 10 hours. The researchers measured participants' spatial skills before and after the game. The spatial skills measure is the __________ variable; it should appear on the _____-axis in a graph of the study's results.

A) independent; x
B) independent; y
C) dependent; x
D) dependent; y

Briefly summarise the basic tenets of evolutionary psychology.

One reason that your ability to detect fine visual details is greatest when scenes are focused on the fovea of your retina is that

A) there are more feature detectors in the fovea than in the peripheral regions of the retina.
B) cones in the fovea are nearer to the optic nerve than those in peripheral regions of the retina.
C) many rods,which are clustered in the fovea,have individual bipolar cells to relay their information to the cortex.
D) many cones,which are clustered in the fovea,have individual bipolar cells to relay their information to the cortex.

According to Robert Sternberg,a college student who does well on multiple-choice and essay exams likely is high in _____ intelligence.

A) analytic
B) creative
C) practical
D) academic