To determine whether weight loss is easier when you maintain a goal focus, Conlon and his colleagues assigned participants to one of three weight loss groups, goal-focused, achievement-focused
and no-focus control. Each group met for 12 weekly meetings and had access to a special website. At this point in their research, Conlon and his associates were completing which step in the scientific method?
a. disseminating their results
b. building a theory
c. defining the problem
d. gathering evidence to test their hypothesis
ANSWER: d
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When you perceive something, what is the first step you take?
a. sensing b. learning c. memorizing d. attending e. motivating
Children who are behaviorally inhibited are
a. high in extraversion and openness to new experience. b. low in emotionality and extraversion. c. high in neuroticism and low in extraversion. d. low in sociability and neuroticism.
Most savant behaviors involve behaviors that are typically
A. lateralized to the right hemisphere. B. lateralized to the left hemisphere. C. lateralized. D. managed by subcortical structures.
Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
Teacher achievements and adequate preparation were strong predictors of student success in math.