Laverne goes to a movie theater to watch her favorite movie. about halfway through the movie she becomes aware of an overpowering hunger for popcorn. what she doesn’t realize is that throughout the first part of the movie, a message saying "eat popcorn! " was repeatedly flashed on the screen at a speed too fast for her to be consciously aware of it. if her desire for popcorn is due to that message, she is responding to:
a) intuitive perception. b) subliminal perception. c) subconscious perception. d) rapid cognition.

The process of learning acceptable social behavior and values is called

“dear sir: it is with great reluctance, i trouble you on a subject, which does not fall within your province; but it is a subject that occasions me more distress, than i have felt, since the commencement of the war; and which loudly demands the most zealous exertions of every person of weight and authority, who is interested in the success of our affairs. i mean the present dreadful situation of the army for want of provisions, and the miserable prospects before us, with respect to futurity. it is more alarming than you will probably conceive, for, to form a just idea, it were necessary to be on the spot. for some days past, there has been little less, than a famine in camp. a part of the army has been a week, without any kind of flesh, and the rest for three or four days. naked and starving as they are, we cannot enough admire the incomparable patience and fidelity of the soldiery, that they have not been ere this excited by their sufferings, to a general mutiny or dispersion. strong symptoms, however, discontent have appeared in particular instances; and nothing but the most acitive efforts every where can long avert so shocking a catastrophe.” what’s the central idea?

Steven pinker states that an important difference exists between men and women in: