Much research has demonstrated a weak link between (a) what people say their attitudes are, and (b) how they actually behave. According to the text, one of the key reasons that this relationship is so weak, however, is the fact that researchers have often ____
a. tried to relate very general attitudes to very specific behaviors
b. tried to relate very specific attitudes to very general behaviors
c. limited their research in this area to very sensitive topics (e.g., sexual attitudes and behaviors), where attitude-behavior inconsistencies are especially likely to occur
d. limited their research in this area to topics that research participants are unlikely to care much about (e.g., the number of minutes they will spend on a particular experimental task), where attitude-behavior inconsistencies are especially likely to occur
A
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a. more effective than positive reinforcement. b. as effective as negative reinforcement. c. less effective than extinction. d. often ineffective.
Children's IQs resemble their biological parents' IQs more than their adoptive parents' IQs. This supports the ____ perspective on intelligence
a. interactionist b. environmental c. hereditary d. secular trend
Most depressed people show ____ activity in the ____ prefrontal cortex.
A. increased; left B. decreased; left C. decreased; right D. increased; right and left
A psychologist is studying gender relationships in childhood and early adolescence. Students from each grade are separately observed during lunchtime at school in order to assess their seating preferences. The researcher is conducting a _______
a. cross-sectional study. b. longitudinal study. c. single-blind study. d. double-blind study.