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A major difference between Watson's behaviorism and Freud's psychoanalysis is that ?
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Behaviorism stressed observable behavior, but psychoanalysis stressed unconscious urges.
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A split-brain patient is briefly shown a cup on the far left and a hat on the far right. if asked to indicate which object appeared, when will the cup be selected?
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Only when the left hand is used to select the object.
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After reading that children’s shoe size and reading ability are positively correlated, Tom said, “Getting older probably explains both increased shoe size and reading skill. Which problem associated with interpreting correlations did Tom point out?
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a third variable effect
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Although she saw both pieces taken out of their cans, Amy now thinks that she has less clay than her brother because his has been squashed flat. Amy does not understand
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conservation
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Based on Harlow’s artificial mother research, hospitals might best promote parent-child attachment if
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parents are encouraged to cuddle their newborn often.
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Compared to neurons without myelin, neurons with myelin?
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usually have faster transmission rates
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Eduardo's body was encased in cast during the first nine months of his life. He probably will
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begin to walk at about the same time as children given free movement.
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Fred’s advisor noticed that he had not included the same words in each list used to test whether the color of ink affects memory. The lists differed in both content and ink color. Fred can’t easily interpret his results because
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his experiment included a confounding variable.
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Grandpa’s stroke affected Broca’s area in the brain. Grandpa probably has difficulty
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producing language
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If Mike is struggling to achieve generativity rather than stagnation, mike is probably?
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Middle aged
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Kim decided that stealing a drug would be wrong because it is against the law, and because laws are needed to maintain social order. Kim is reasoning at Kohlberg’s
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Conventional Level
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Marta believes that innate mechanisms help us learn language, find a mate, and engage in some social behaviors. She believes these mechanisms occur because of natural selection. Marta’s beliefs suggest
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she is an evolutionary psychologist
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Prior to the 1800s, the mind was studied mostly by
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philosophers and physiologists
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Psychologists who work in schools and industry are classified as
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applied psychologists
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researchers are recording the gross electrical activity of a man's brain. this procedure is probably an
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EEG
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Researchers manipulated the temperature of the room in which 4 groups of students were asked to solve 10 math problems. Students in the 60- and 70-degree rooms had more correct answers than students in the 80- and 90-degree rooms. The dependent variable in this experiment is
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the number of math problems correct.
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Sharika's hindbrain was damaged when she hit her head. She is likely to experience
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Problems regulating heart rate, respiration, and blood pressure.
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The cognitive revolution refers to
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the new interest in studying the mind, after years of studying only directly observable behavior.
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To help ensure that uncontrolled individual difference in participants are equated across the groups in an experiment, researchers are most likely to use
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random assignment
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When results from laboratory research fail to predict behavior in the real world, research lacks
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external validity
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