Silas participated in a psychology experiment in which he was shown a series of word pairs and was asked to rate them on the basis of how well they fit together. Two days later, he was shown the same pairs of words, but this time, one of the words in the pair was missing. Nevertheless, Silas recalls almost all the missing words even though he was not asked to remember them. The type of study that
he participated in was most likely interested in the effects of ____.
a. ?priming
b. ?heuristics
c. ?the law of effect
d. ?perceptual organization
ANSWER:
a
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a. nerve b. continuity c. closure d. subliminal e. conduction
The definition of eudaimonia or happiness is equivalent to the idea of hedonism.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
When Parker is under stress, he tends to either get very confrontational and argumentative, or back away and totally withdraw from the stressful situation. Parker is exhibiting a ________ response to stress
a. learned helplessness b. fight-or-flight c. denial d. tend-and-befriend
Which of the following is the correct null hypothesis for an independent-measures t test?
A) ??1 - ?2 = 0 B) ?M1 - M2 = 0 C) ?1 - ?2 ? 0 D) M1 - M2 ? 0