In general, psychologists try to explain behavior by studying its
a. causes.
b. consequences.
c. implications.
d. meaning.
e. context.
a. causes.
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High school seniors Meera and Karen are talking about memories. Meera says that she can remember a song she learned when she was a year old. Karen disagrees and says that's not likely. Why?
A. We do not verbally encode before the age of 3 1/2. B. Memory does not start operating until the age of 3 1/2. C. A one-year-old's attention span is so poor that a child that young cannot encode anything. D. Long-term memory does not exist in children that young.
At 20 months, Katy says "pah-getty" (spaghetti) whenever she wants to eat and says "milk" when she wants something to drink. She also calls her mother "Mama" and her father "Dada" and her cat "Kitty.". Katy is most likely in the which stage of language development?
a. cooing b. babbling c. telegraphic d. single-word
In the following, 
, what does the z-score tell us?
A. that the population mean is 2.33 SDs above the current class mean B. that the current class mean is 2.33 SDs above the population mean C. that the current class mean is 2.33 SDs below the population mean D. that the population mean is 2.33 SDs below the current class mean
Contemporary trait theorists have demonstrated that personality traits can be reduced to ______ basic dimensions
a. three c. seven b. five d. nine