If you see your mother in the kitchen crying and incorrectly

assume she is upset when her tears are really due to peeling an onion, you have failed to distinguish between and inference.
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ANSWER: observation

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Fill in the blank(s) with correct word

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Jake is a 37-year-old male with two daughters, a wife, a mortgage, and a car payment. Which interpersonal issue is more likely to depress him?

a. His oldest daughter is having a lot of trouble in school. b. His mortgage statement just came, and the increase in taxes is going to make the payment a lot higher than what he can manage. c. He and his wife are arguing over lots of little things, and he can't figure out why they aren't getting along. d. He just got a raise, but it comes with more responsibility at work, and he is away from home more often than he would like.

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A member of your favorite study group from last semester is walking toward you in the mall, but you cannot remember her name. You are sure you would be able to remember her name if you were back on campus in the library room where the group met to study. Maybe when you hear her voice, her name will come back to you. You are experiencing

a. cue-dependent forgetting. b. encoding failure. c. repression. d. suppression.

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What is a stimulus that guides behavior as a result of a differential conditioning procedure

called? a. A differential stimulus b. An orienting stimulus c. A discriminative stimulus d. A primary stimulus e. A secondary stimulus

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