Rips et al. (1973) demonstrated that people verify "a robin is a bird" faster than "a chicken is a bird." This is an example of
A. an exemplar effect.
B. a typicality effect.
C. a basic-level effect.
D. category induction.
Answer: B
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Social interactions between 11- and 12-year-old boys and girls may be awkward because
a. girls tend to do much better than boys in school at this age, and this becomes a source of endless teasing and torment. b. girls form cliques and boys form crowds, and thus they really have nothing to talk about c. they are not yet at the age where they have anything in common, and thus there is no real value in these social interactions. d. the girls may be taller and look more mature than the boys, since their pubertal growth spurt begins earlier.
Which of the following situations best illustrates process loss?
a. social loafing b. transactive memory c. the prisoner's dilemma d. contingent leadership
After pairing the conditioned stimulus (CS) and unconditioned stimulus (US) in a series of conditioning trials, the organism learns to respond to the CS alone. This learned behavior is then termed the
a. neutral stimulus. b. latent stimulus. c. unconditioned response. d. conditioned response.
Psychologists using which type of therapy assume that if people have learned responses that cause problems, they can relearn more appropriate responses?
a. psychoanalysis b. applied behavior analysis c. client-centered therapy d. existential therapy