What is homeostasis?
a. Achieving one's full potential, including creative activities
b. Choosing to satisfy one motivation instead of another one
c. Maintaining an optimum level of biological conditions
d. Doing something because you enjoy the activity, without any other reward
c
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A child's diagnosis of conduct disorder should reflect his or her current level of misbehavior. The validity that refers to whether test or interview results relate to important present features or characteristics is known as
a. concurrent validity. b. predictive validity. c. content validity. d. construct validity.
The function of a theory that suggests a new hypotheses is called its _______ function.
a. heuristic b. synthesizing c. most useful d. none of the above
In reference to operant conditioning, which term does NOT belong with the others?
a. extinction b. conditioned aversion c. stimulus control d. reinforcement
"Look! Up in the sky! It's a bird. It's a plane. It's Superman!" If you looked up, would you be conforming?
a) Yes. You would be looking up because you were told to do so. b) No. Conformity requires that you base your behavior on what other people are doing, not being told to do so. c) Yes. Conformity means doing what you are told or else. d) No. Looking up only means you are curious.