Regarding overeating, which of the following statements is FALSE?
a. Restaurant foods in the United States are higher in fat and calories than meals made at home.
b. If internal needs alone controlled eating, fewer people would overeat.
c. Dieting speeds up the body's rate of metabolism.
d. People are sensitive to dietary content with sweetness, high fat content, and variety tending to encourage overeating.
C
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A. autonomous cooperation B. heteronomous morality C. incipient cooperation D. object permanence
What roles do thought stopping and thought substitution have in cognitive-behavior therapy?
What will be an ideal response?
Cross-cultural research on memory reveals that
A) children in non-Western cultures who have no formal schooling benefit greatly from instruction in memory strategies. B) children who have no formal schooling do as well on list memory tasks as formally educated children. C) the development of memory strategies is partly a product of task demands and cultural circumstances. D) American children easily refrain from rehearsing object names when it is more effective to keep track of spatial relations.
A detailed description of a particular individual based on careful observation or formal psychological testing is called a(n):
a. observational study. b. correlational study. c. case study. d. survey.