When Aimee looks at some modern artwork at the museum, she often thinks she sees human figures or faces and likes to make up stories about them. When she tells the stories to her friend, her friend says that the stories reflect Aimee's unconscious thoughts. In psychological terms, what Aimee does is most similar to __________.

A. classical conditioning
B. a projective test
C. behavior sampling
D. an objective test


Answer: B

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a) It was created by groups to solve complex problems of living and social life, enabling them to survive more functionally and effectively. b) It is not possible to access the mental models of culture that influence a person's way of thinking, feeling, and behaving. c) It does not have a strong cognitive component like evolution of language. d) It only refers to the individual mental representations of one's habits.

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The sampling distribution of t differs from the sampling distribution of z in that _________

a. there is only one sampling distribution of z (the normal distribution) for all N, while there are many sampling distributions for t, depending on sample size. b. the sampling distribution of z is more narrow, except when N equals infinity. c. the means of the two distributions are different d. all of these e. a and b

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According to the article Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Ad? about fear appeals inadvertising, the

participants were (a) members of a gun club (b) shoppers in a mall (c) people watching TV at home (d) all people who owned stun-guns

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