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| when researchers monitored the professional accomplishments of more than 1500 highly intelligent individuals, they found that the most successful were more ambitious, energetic, and persistent. this best illustrates the importance of |
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| Lewis Terman's widely used American revision of Binet's original intelligence test was the |
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| news about the supposed effects of briefly presented messages on moviegoers' consumption of popcorn and coca-cola involved false claims regarding |
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| which psychologist reported that infant attachment to another goes beyond the satisfaction of the need for nourishment? |
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| norby, and 18 year old college freshman, has missed almost all his classes during the past month. he spends most of his time in his bedroom, frequently not even bothering to get dressed or eat meals. he thinks his whole life has been a failure and blames himself for being a social misfit. norby is most likely suffering from |
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| Bandura's experiments indicate that __________ is important in the process of learning |
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| the hindsight bias refers to people's tendency to |
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| contemporary psychology is best defined as the scientific study of |
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| behavior and mental processes |
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| if research suggested that a pregnant mother's use of an artificial sweetener caused harm to the fetus, the artificial sweetener would be considered a(n) |
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| although rolf frequently cheats on classroom tests, he justifies his behavior by erroneously thinking that most other students cheat even more than he does. his mistaken belief best illustrates |
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| philip zimbardo devised a simulated prison and randomly assigned college students to serve as prisoners and guards. this experiment best illustrated the impact of |
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| role-playing on attitudes |
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| at 3 o'clock in the morning, john has already slept for 4 hours. as long as his sleep continues, we expect an increasing occurrence of |
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| jamille preforms better on foreign language vocabulary test if she studies material 15 minutes every day for 8 days than if she crams for 2 hours the night before the test. this illustrates what is known as |
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| those who score above average on tests of mathematical aptitude are also likely to score above average on tests of verbal aptitude. according to spearman, this best illustrates the importance of |
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| damage to the basilar membrane is most likely to result in |
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| in order to learn about the TV viewing habits of all the children attending OakBridge School, Professor DeVries randomly selected an interviewed 50 of the school's students. in this instance, all of the children attending the school are considered to be a(n) |
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| when rick learned that many students had received a failing grade on the midterm exam, he was no longer disappointed by his C grade. his experience best illustrates the importance of |
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| a trainer wants to train a chicken to peck a key to obtain food. if she wants the chicken to learn this trick quickly and the behavior to be resistant to extinction, she should use ______ reinforcement until the response is mastered and then follow with a period of ________ reinforcement |
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| professor woo noticed that the distribution of students' scores on her last biology test had an extremely small standard deviation. this indicates that the |
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| sabrina went to the store for furniture polish, carrots, pencils, ham, sponges, celery, notebook paper, and salami. she remembered to buy all these items by reminding herself that she needed food products that included meats and vegetables and that she needed nonfood products that included school supplies and cleaning aids. Sabrina made effective use of |
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| an all-or-none response pattern is characteristic of the |
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| initiation of neural impulses |
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| jerome believes that his 4-year-old grandson is a hyperactive child because the boy's constant movement resembles Jerome's prototype of hyperactivity. Jerome's thinking best illustrates |
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| in order to assess how optimistic or pessimistic your classmates are, you would be best advised to discover |
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| how they explain their academic failures, financial setbacks, and relationship difficulties |
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| a therapist suggests that margaret is depressed because she attributes her failures to her own incompetence instead of blaming her parents and teachers for the unreasonable demands they play on her. the therapists interpretation most clearly reflects a ___________ perspective |
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| lavonne was careful to avoid the use of dangling participles and run-on sentences is her essay because she did not want to lose points for faulty |
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| it is well established that certain autonomic responses such as heart rate, perspiration, and respiration change under stress. in view of that fact that people generally have stronger autonomic responses when lying than when telling the truth, it follows that the polygraph would be a foolproof approach to lie detection. which statement best explains why the polygraph is not more widely used in courtrooms and in testing of job applicants? |
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| physiological arousal is much the same for several emotions, so the polygraph cannot always reliably distinguish guilt form other reactions |
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| edith, a 45-year-old journalist, alternates between extreme sadness and lethargy and extreme euphoria and over activity. the drug most likely to prove beneficial to her is |
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