According to the themes of your textbook,
a. our cognitive processes typically operate independently of one another.
b. our cognitive processes usually occur automatically.
c. our cognitive processes are quite accurate; our errors can often be traced to strategies that are useful in other situations.
d. we react to negative information more efficiently than we react to positive information.
Ans: c
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a. ?+.80 b. ?-.20 c. ?+.20 d. ?-.80
Regarding aging and ageism, which of the following statements is FALSE?
a. Popular stereotypes of the "dirty old man," "meddling old woman," "senile old fool," and the like help perpetuate myths about aging. b. In some societies, ageism is expressed as respect for the elderly. c. Ageism is being shown when older people are spoken to in an overly polite, slow, loud, and simple way, implying that they are infirm, even when they are not. d. Basing retirement on a person's age makes sense, since older workers in most occupations perform poorly in jobs that require both speed and skill.
In order to decrease the likelihood that history effects will occur in an experiment, one thing the experimenter can do when using a pretest posttest design is to _____
a. have the treatment as similar to the pretest and posttest conditions as possible b. eliminate the pretest c. eliminate the posttest d. use the same pretest and posttest
The arms race was used to introduce
(a) the concept of a paradigm (b) social facilitation (c) game theory (d) ethology (e) dissonance theory