Which of the following is an effective aid to skill learning?
a. the use of medications to enhance athletic performance
b. the emotional conditioning of coaches
c. studying a skilled model
d. breaking the skill into small, artificial parts
ANSWER: c
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The history of human cultural inventions
a. has continued at a steady pace for 10,000 years. b. has increased most dramatically over the past two centuries. c. began with the agricultural age. d. was most rapid during the period of the invention of stone tools.
A terrorist leader has recruited new volunteers and is addressing them. He tells them that their mission will "eliminate" many people but that they would be serving a higher purpose. He explains that their group's struggle depends on martyrs such as themselves. He goes on to say that, their victims belong to a lesser class of people and refers to them with an insulting ethnic slur. He declares that they deserve to be eliminated. The new volunteers not only agree to take part in a suicide mission, they are happy to have been chosen. By referring to the recruits as "martyrs" and saying that their mission will serve a higher purpose, leader is using which method of cognitive restructuring?
A. Dehumanization B. Moral justification C. Advantageous comparison D. Displacement of responsibility
Animal and situational phobias are much more prevalent in women, EXCEPT in the case of a fear of ______.
a. heights b. flying c. snakes d. spiders
To test the impact of therapy on depression, a researcher tells a random half of his subjects (falsely) that they failed an exam. He then conducts one hour of therapy with the "failure" subjects
One week later the subjects given false feedback are no more depressed than the control group, so the researcher concludes the treatment was effective. This would be described as which type of research? a) a longitudinal design b) an analogue study c) a correlational design d) convenience sampling