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A researcher wants to study how people's attention shifts when they see a visual stimulus in an unexpected portion of a screen that they are viewing, this attention shift occurs in just a fraction of a second. Which technique is the best to use? {Ans: Event related potential technique (ERP)}During the first half of the 20th century, what did strict behaviorists think? {Ans: Psychology should focus only on objective reactions to environmental stimuli}Ecological validity {Ans: A principle of research design in which the research uses conditions that are similar to the natural setting where the results will be applied}Cognitive neuroscience {Ans: An approach to studying mental activity that uses research techniques of cognitive psychology, along with various neuroscience techniques for asserting the structure and function of the brain}event-related potential (ERP) {Ans: A procedure for recording very brief, small fluctuations in the brains electrical activity in response to a stimulus}The distinction between whether or not cognitive activities are performed as a sequence of operations or as a simultaneous processing of many signals involves the issues of {Ans: Serial processing and parallel processing}