Animals who learned to press a bar in a Skinner box showed NO signs of learning if the food reward followed a bar press by more than seconds
a. 10
b. 30
c. 70 d. 100
ANSWER: d
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What can we conclude about gender differences in what men and women talk about?
a. Women gossip to a much greater extent than men. b. No gender differences can be found in conversational topics. c. In general, the similarities in conversational topics are greater than the differences. d. Men are much more likely to talk about work, whereas women are much more likely to talk about other women.
A psychology professor is considered an expert in positive psychology. She is always being asked to give speeches and interviews, and has written articles for the local newspaper. Why is there such interest in her research?
A. Research in this area is heavily funded by the federal government. B. Health insurance companies are more likely to pay for our attempts to remain healthy than to treat illness. C. Psychology generally focuses on problems and weaknesses, so positive psychology represents a significant change. D. It provides insight into how we react to stressors that may cause depression and anxiety.
Which problem solving strategy breaks the overall problem down into separate parts?
a. forming ill-defined goals c. forming secondary problems b. forming subgoals d. forming heuristics
Nielsen and Smith found that the number of relevant features influenced the time required to match a picture of a face to a preceding stimulus when the preceding stimulus consisted of
a. a picture of a face. c. Both of these b. a verbal description of a face. d. Neither of these