In Libet’s (1985) study, what was the sequence of events found?

A child interrupts dinner repeatedly, so the parents take away her tablet for the rest of the evening. The interrupting behavior decreases in the following days. What process explains this decrease?

Sensitization occurs when an organism responds less strongly over time to a stimulus.

In the Soon, Brass, Heinze, and Haynes (2008) study, brain activity was found to predict participants’ choices up to 10 seconds before they consciously decided what option to select. 

Sarah is trying to remember the name of an old classmate. She knows the information is somewhere in her memory — she can almost picture the person’s face and even recall the first letter of the name — but she just can’t quite bring the full name to mind even though it feels like it is on the tip of her tongue. A few hours later, the name suddenly comes to her out of nowhere. Sarah’s experience best illustrates a breakdown in which stage of memory?

Maria spends an hour consciously working through a difficult math problem but can’t solve it. She sets it aside to take a shower, and while she’s not thinking about it at all, the solution suddenly pops into her head. Which stage of the Eureka experience does taking the shower represent?

Libet’s (1985) research found that conscious awareness of a decision occurs before unconscious brain preparation begins.

In Pavlov’s experiment, food naturally causes a dog to salivate without any prior learning. Food in this case is the:

Cardinal Richelieu was appointed to serve as French king following the death of Henry IV.

What is the cost of a minimum spanning tree of the following graph? You may use either Kruskal’s algorithm or Prim’s algorithm (starting from an arbitrary node).