If you read your horoscope in the morning newspaper and feel strongly that it is a personal message about how to conduct your day, you may be experiencing the
A) Barnum effect.
B) tendency toward critical thinking.
C) Zodiac Intervention.
D) context of personality.
E) Gullibility Effect.
Answer: A) Barnum effect.
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a. cumulative development. b. continuous development. c. holistic development. d. plasticity.
According to feminists and psychologist __________, the desire for social connectedness is largely female and the desire for a separate identity is largely male
a. Mary Ainsworth b. Anna Freud c. Carol Gilligan d. Margaret Mahler
The idea that a behavior will increase or decrease based on the consequences that follow that behavior is crucial to ________
a. operant conditioning b. insight learning c. vicarious learning d. classical conditioning
Intellectual disability is a condition of limited mental ability in which an individual has a low IQ, usually below ________ on a traditional intelligence test, and who has difficulty adapting to everyday life.
A. 80 B. 90 C. 100 D. 70