Peleki carefully watches how his mother uses her computer as she works. Later, he tries to imitate her actions with his own toy keyboard. This behavior is best explained by __________ theory of __________
A) Bandura's; social learning
B) Piaget's; social learning
C) Skinner's; operant conditioning
D) Skinner's; cognitive development
A
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a. at the mean. b. one standard deviation below the mean. c. one standard deviation above the mean. d. two standard deviations above the mean.
Which of the following is the best example of ironic processing interfering with attempted thought suppression?
a. You are trying not to think about the fact that you made a fool of yourself at a party last weekend, but the thought pops into your head every few hours. b. You are trying not to think about the fact that you made a fool of yourself at a party last weekend, but the more you try not to think about it, the more the thought keeps popping into your head. c. The more you think about the fact that you made a fool of yourself at a party last weekend, the more mortifying and embarrassing the event seems. d. The more you think about the fact that you made a fool of yourself at a party last weekend, the less embarrassing it seems.
The "last minute disclosure" is a recommended technique
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
Imagine that a researcher measures a specific psychological characteristic (SPC) in pairs of siblings who are being reared together. She finds a correlation of .15 between pairs of adopted siblings who are biologically unrelated, a correlation of
63 for fraternal twins, and a correlation of .92 for identical twins. These results suggest that A) compared to the impact of the environment, genetics contributes relatively little to variability in the SPC. B) the shared environment contributes greatly to the variability in the SPC only among the identical twins. C) both the environment and genetics contribute substantially to the variability in the SPC. D) relative to the influence of genetics, the environment contributes relatively little to variability in the SPC.