Your boss calls you into her office. “I will be reviewing your performance next week based on what we call critical incidents. These are comprised of specific outcomes important to you job.” In other words, your boss will be utilizing a(n) ____
a. ?graphic rating form
b. ?behavior-focused rating form
c. ?objective measure
d. ?global measure
ANSWER:
b
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According to an evolutionary perspective, males are competitive with each other because
a. females are predisposed to sexual jealousy. b. males select high-status females for mating. c. aggression enhances the male's confidence in the paternity of his offspring. d. males use physical aggression to eliminate women who are unlikely to provide offspring.
Which statement is a characteristic of Skinner's teaching machines?
A) It provided monetary reinforcement for each question answered correctly. B) It increased the difficulty of questions based on students' reaction times. C) It provided immediate feedback as to whether the question was answered correctly or incorrectly. D) It decreased the difficulty of the next question if the previous question was answered correctly.
The critical thinking concept of replicability is best demonstrated by which of the following examples?
A) Research has found that there is a relationship between the amount of pain a person can tolerate and the color of their hair, suggesting that having red hair actually causes a decrease in pain tolerance. B) Von Helmholtz repeated and extended the research into the trichromatic theory of color vision he proposed with Thomas Young by examining the colors that color-blind individuals could see. C) There is evidence that color vision allowed animals to easily pick ripe fruit out of a green background, and more recent fossil evidence suggests that trichromatic vision may have enabled primates to find young, reddish, tender leaves that were nutritionally superior. D) People who suffer from synesthesia are unable to successfully complete the Ganzfield task because their cross-modal perception makes the selection of specific shapes impossible.
Your teacher has assigned an article that outlines Sigmund Freud's view on the etiology of psychological disorders. Because you are very familiar with Freud, you correctly anticipate his suggestion that psychological disorders are the result of
a. early childhood experiences. b. social and cultural norms. c. interpersonal relationships. d. negative self-attributions.