Kellett and Beall (1997) were treating a woman with suffering from posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) after an automobile accident
They obtained baseline measurements on frequency of nightmares, intensity of nightmares, and time to recover from a nightmare. They treated the woman, then obtained measurements of the same variables. This design illustrates
a. an ABABAB design.
b. a retrospective design.
c. a withdrawal design.
d. a multiple baseline study.
d
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Imagine that the students described below are all taking a multiple choice test. Which student's behavior best describes an example of implicit memory?
a. One student comes to a question for which he is unsure of the answer, but choice b seems familiar so he decides that it must be right. b. One student remembers the correct answer to a question as well as where the information could be found in his notebook. c. One student has no idea what an answer was supposed to be, but she does not want to leave a question blank. So, she guesses by first writing out items that she thought would make sense. d. One student is sure he does not know the answer for a question, so he leaves it blank.
A skilled cellist has extensive regions of the brain devoted to control the fingers of the left hand as they are positioned on the strings. This is an example of experience-dependent growth
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
The general principle that the impact of a teratogen depends upon the genotype of the organism is best illustrated by
a. rubella being more likely to cause birth defects during some times of pregnancy than during others. b. thalidomide during pregnancy causing deformed limbs, but not low birth weight, while the use of marijuana during pregnancy is associated with low birth weight but not deformed limbs. c. the effects of eating PCB-contaminated fish while pregnant not being obvious when a child is born, but appearing later in the child's life. d. two women who both took thalidomide during pregnancy with one of them giving birth to a child with deformed limbs and the other giving birth to a child with normal limbs.
Two-week-old Jamie is lying quietly in her bassinet. Suddenly she utters a loud, piercing cry and holds her breath. She is probably
A. hungry. B. frustrated. C. angry. D. in pain.