4.A friend from high school has become a famous singer and is constantly the subject of social media. Whenever you read about her, you dream about how great it must be to live as one of the rich and famous. What must it be like to live in a mansion and have people to take care of your every need. You follow her every move on social media. By chance you learn that the new high school being built in your neighborhood is financed by your high school friend. Then you remember that your friend was always sticking up for the students who were bullied at school. School wasn’t easy for her but she worked hard and graduated. She is spending a good portion of her fortune on promoting education. The characteristic of preoperational thought that is evident in your behavior is

Paleoanthropologists believe that the predominant diet of our earliest omnivorous ancestors consisted mostly of

Which of the following scenarios is an example of attentional blink? click or tap a choice to answer the question. while grading a student’s essay, a professor does not notice the mistake in the following sentence: “metacognition is the the awareness of one’s own thought processes.” a waiter is telling two friends about the daily specials when a neighboring table erupts in laughter. the friends ask the waiter to repeat the last few items because their attention was diverted by the sudden loud laughs. you watch television while you study for a language exam. the next day, you are unable to recall the majority of the new vocabulary you thought you had memorized. you are at a loud concert, and you are able to concentrate on the music while blocking out the conversations around you, cell phone rings, and other irrelevant stimuli.

The persians landed in the plains near athens. as their army greatly outnumbered that of the greeks, the greeks hoped to find aid from nearby sparta. a long-distance runner named pheidippides was sent from athens to sparta to request , but the spartans were not able to send more soldiers at the time. regardless, the greeks were still able to win the battle. centuries later, legend developed that a runner had been sent from the battle to athens after the greek victory. after reaching athens, the runner proclaimed, "we are victorious! " and then fell to the ground and died. this legendary story is the inspiration for the modern long-distance runs that are performed today. this passage refers to the events of which battle during the persian wars? a. battle of thermopylae b. battle of salamis c. battle of plataea d. battle of marathon