Dr. Allen forms the hypothesis that students will score higher on take-home exams than they will on in-class exams. In this experiment, what is the best way to divide the participants into groups?
A) Have the participants choose which type of exam they want to take. B) How the groups are formed doesn't matter. C) Have all males in one group and all females in the other. D) Use random assignment.
Which of the following is a brain-imaging method in which radioactive tracers are injected into the subject and a computer compiles an image of brain activity?
A) electroencephalography (EEG) B) computerized axial tomography (CT) C) positron-emission tomography (PET) D) functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)
A) Fideism allows that we can improve or revise our religious beliefs on the basis of reason. B) Fideism gives us no way of knowing which religious beliefs we should hold as a matter of faith. C) Believing something, in itself, shows that it is correct. D) Fideism requires that you only believe religious claims when there is evidence supporting those claims.
The German philosopher Immanuel Kant emphasized that
A) perception is the same as sensation. B) we learn to perceive the world through experience. C) the perceived whole may exceed the sum of its parts. D) perception depends on innate ways of organizing sensory experience.