To increase profits, the cereal company wants to reduce the amount of raisins in each cup of cereal, but they don't want consumers to notice the change. To know how many raisins they can remove, they first need to obtain an estimate of the:
a. absolute threshold for raisins in a cup of cereal
b. difference threshold for raisins in a cup of cereal
c. signal detection threshold for raisins in a cup of cereal
d. hit rate for raisin detection in a cup of cereal
B
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A. latent content B. manifest content C. the pleasure principle D. the reality principle
Steve is waiting for an important check from the IRS. He begins to check his mail starting at 9 o’clock in the morning and checks it every hour throughout the day. This is an example of a ______.
A. fixed-ratio schedule B. variable-ratio schedule C. fixed-interval schedule D. variable-interval schedule
Researchers asked students about their initial recollections a few days after the Challenger explosion and then 2 1/2 to 3 years later. The results showed that
A) few students showed significant changes in their memories with the passage of time and their initial recollections were largely accurate. B) few students failed to show changes in their memories with the passage of time and about one-third showed dramatic changes in memory. C) most students showed dramatic changes from their initial recollections to their later recollections. D) most students showed changes in their memories with the passage of time and about one-third showed dramatic changes in memory.
Thought-action fusion is
a. a psychotic symptom that helps distinguish between anxiety disorders and psychotic disorders. b. support for the preparedness theory of obsessive-compulsive disorder. c. the belief that thinking about something is as bad as actually doing it. d. the reason why trying to suppress unwanted thoughts often causes an increase in those thoughts.