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Suppose you are in your kitchen writing a grocery list, while your roommate is watching TV in the next room. A commercial for spaghetti sauce comes on TV. Although you are not paying attention to the TV, you “suddenly” remember that you need to pick up spaghetti sauce and add it to the list. Your behavior is BEST predicted by which of these models of attention?

Define functional connectivity and structural connectivity within the context of cognitive neuroscience.

If you could travel anywhere in the world, where would it be?

There are four conceptualizations of object perception that we discussed in class: unconscious inference, Gestalt laws, environmental regularities, and Bayesian inference. Identify the main difference between the Gestalt laws and the other three conceptualizations.

According to Ebbinghaus’s research on memory, savings is a function of:

Which of the following is NOT a suitable criterion for managers to use when organizing people into workgroups? 

Within a professional bureaucracy, the technostructure plays significant roles in supporting strategic axes and leaders.

Hannah started her sports marketing company with just a few partners, but as the company grew, roles and responsibilities became less clear. Now that the company has 100 employees, some teams struggle with confusion over who is responsible for what, while others fear that establishing too much structure will stifle their creativity. This is an example of which structural dilemma:

The Missouri local sports organization has separate teams for coaching, event management, and marketing. Each team focuses on its specific area of responsibility to ensure smooth operations. This is an example of a group organized by:

Which of the following are assumptions of the structural frame? Select all that apply.