When infants watch a toy car go down a ramp and through a spot where something should have blocked it, what happens?
a. They stare longer at the scene
b. They look away from the scene.
c. They smile or giggle.
d. They give no indication that the event is impossible.
a
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Which of the following underlies attempts to convince ourselves that we have done the right thing, such as creating stories that change one’s spouses’s faults into virtues?
a. dialectic thinking b. ethnocentrism c. cognitive dissonance d. overgeneralization
When the number of responses is important to a schedule of reinforcement, that schedule is called a _____________ schedule
A) ratio B) interval C) conditioned D) time-delayed
You try a new potato chip and it tastes great, so you encourage a friend to try it. He tastes a new chip, then an old-style chip, and finally says that as far as he is concerned, all potato chips taste the same
The behavior of your friend is most similar to what might occur in a study of a. difference thresholds. b. absolute thresholds. c. accommodation. d. response bias.
The primary finding of Hans Eysenck’s 1952 review of psychotherapy outcome studies was that
A. psychotherapy was of little benefit, since most clients got better without it. B. psychotherapy was beneficial when practiced by therapists with doctoral degrees, but not beneficial when practiced by therapists with master’s or bachelor’s degrees. C. humanistic psychotherapy was significantly more effective than psychodynamic psychotherapy. D. cognitive psychotherapy was significantly more effective than behavioral psychotherapy.