_____ is the perception that one has no control over the reinforcements in his or her life.
A)Learned helplessness
B)Attributions
C)Learned hopelessness
D)Self-blame
A)Learned helplessness
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Cattell accepted the influences on personality of both:
a. free will and the drive for self-actualization. b. the superego and the id. c. the conscious and unconscious. d. nature and nurture.
According to the S-F hypothesis, our ability to differentiate living things and artifacts depends on a semantic memory system that distinguishes and one that distinguishes
a. sensations; facts b. sensory attributes; function c. serial nodes; familiar concepts d. sequential networks; familial resemblance
Regarding counterirritation, which of the following statements is FALSE?
a. The lock and key theory helps explain counterirritation. b. Applying mild electric currents to the skin can alleviate pain or reduce more agonizing pain. c. For more extreme pain, an electric current is applied directly to the spinal cord. d. If you pinch yourself while you are having a tooth filled, you are using counterirritation.
A researcher wonders about the memory performance of people with Parkinson 's disease, so he recruits 25 patients and gives them the CVLT, a standard memory test. He then gives 25 college students the same test, and compares the performance. What experimental design has he used?
a. one-group pretest-posttest design b. pretest-posttest control group design c. posttest only control group design d. posttest only with nonequivalent control group design