A weakness of the information-processing approach is that ________.
a. its findings are not useful in practical areas, such as education
b. it makes use of research methods that are not sufficiently rigorous to provide accurate accounts of cognitive development
c. it overemphasizes aspects of cognition that are relatively rare, such as creativity
d. it is better at analyzing thinking into its components than at putting them back together into a comprehensive theory
d. it is better at analyzing thinking into its components than at putting them back together into a comprehensive theory
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a. Maslow's model has intuitive appeal. b. One criticism of Maslow's model is that the same behavior may reflect multiple needs. c. Maslow's theory has been criticized for focusing too much on psychosocial needs and not enough onbiological needs d. A person's needs may not be ordered in the fixed manner suggested by Maslow's hierarchy. e. Maslow believed that we all have the ability to follow our own paths toward achieving self-actualization.
Masters and Johnson's sexual response cycle occurs during ____
a. vaginal intercourse only c. oral and anal sex only b. masturbation only d. all sexual behaviors
Kevin loves to sleep and works hard to finish his homework each night so that he can go to sleep. In this example, sleep is considered a
A. primary punisher. B. secondary punisher. C. primary reinforcer. D. secondary reinforcer.
One purpose of the _______________ is to speed up the conduction of neural impulses
a. dendrites b. axon terminal c. myelin sheath d. synaptic vesicle