You are a consultant to a television production company that creates shows for children. They are trying to decide on the type of main character they should have for a new show
Based on research by Meltzoff, you tell them that toddlers are more likely to imitate a behavior if it modeled by ________________.
a. an adult c. Barney the dinasour
b. a backyardigans d. a robot with high contrast colors
Answer: a
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Milgram's famous study (1963) in which people were led to believe that they were administering shocks to other people illustrates the power of obedience and
a. evaluation apprehension b. role demands c. experimenter bias d. selection bias
A gene?environment correlation is evocative when __________
A) parents provide environments influenced by their own heredity B) children extend their experiences beyond the immediate family C) children actively seek environments that fit with their genetic tendencies D) a child’s heredity influences responses that strengthen the child’s original style
Dwayne and his nine-year-old son are sitting at the breakfast table and talking about various things
The son mentions a dream he had about his favorite toy. Dwayne mentions a bizarre dream he had the previous night. These differences in the content of dreams is best explained by A) activation-synthesis theory. B) dream protection theory. C) neurocognitive theory. D) sleep dissociation theory.
In Rosenthal and Jacobson's (1968) study of the effect that teacher expectations had on the performance of selected elementary school students, the changes in student intellectual performance were attributed to the
a. way that the teachers behaved toward the special students. b. ability of the psychological tests to predict who the "academic spurters" were likely to be. c. support that was given to the special students by their peers. d. removal of the "normal" students from the classroom.