A researcher conducted two experiments to test a theory. One experiment was designed to confirm a hypothesis of the theory and the second experiment was designed to falsify the hypothesis. From the perspective of theory construction and testing,
A. the theory is precise and parsimonious.
B. the theory is neither precise nor parsimonious.
C. the first experiment is more informative.
D. the second experiment is more informative.
D. the second experiment is more informative.
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A feminist is a person who believes that
a. there are large gender differences, in terms of psychological characteristics. b. women's ideas and women's experiences should be valued. c. women should be granted more privileges and authority than men. d. gender is much more important than race, as a psychological characteristic.
Insensitive caregiving relates to all these parental factors EXCEPT
a. the parent's own experience of neglect. b. unplanned pregnancies. c. a stormy marriage. d. genetic predisposition.
The Premack principle says that reinforcement involves _______
a. a reduction in drive b. an increase in the potency of a behavior c. a relation between behaviors d. a satisfying state of affairs
Which of the following has NOT been offered as an explanation for infantile amnesia?
A) Infants' original early memories are encoded as physical actions, and these action memories are highly resistant to reconstruction efforts later in life. B) Infants have not yet developed a stable sense of self and therefore information in their early memories is likely to be disorganized and difficult to retrieve in later life. C) The manner in which infants encode memories may not match the manner in which they are asked to retrieve the memories when they are older. D) The degree of frontal lobe development in infancy may make it possible for infants to remember actions, but not be able to describe these memories using words in later life.