Young Jim actually experiences the sadness of his friend Abdul when Abdul's dog runs away. Jim is exhibiting ______________. 
empathy
altruism
cooperative behavior
resistant attachment

In an effort to lower the age at which his infant son will begin to walk, Mr. Simmons puts 8-month-old Richard on a program that emphasizes leg strength. What is the most likely outcome of this intervention? 
It will have no impact.
Richard will have superior leg strength but will not walk any earlier.
Richard will have average leg strength but will not walk any earlier.
Richard will have superior leg strength and will walk earlier.

In _____ investigations of sensory memory, subjects in the second part of the research heard a tone that signaled which row they should report, just after the letters was presented.
Sperling's
Miller's
Atkinson's
Tulving's

Which of the following factors has not been shown to influence action-based object perception?
a. Anticipation of having help to lift an object.
b. Describing the object to someone before interacting with it.
c. Recent success or failure while interacting with an object.
d. Anticipated difficult of the task.

In one study, Zacks et al. (2009) recorded someone making a sandwich and asked participants to press a button when they thought one action was complete. The results of the study indicated that _______were indicative of the end of an action.
a. pauses c. changes in hand orientation

b. changes in speed d. head movements

The research by Rivera-Gaxiola on the effect of Spanish speech sounds on the electrical potentials of American infants shows that speech perception involves:

a. experience-dependent plasticity. c. the genetic basis for speech production.
b. the genetic basis to speech perception. d. multimodal stimulation.