A genetically programmed bit of behavior that occurs when circumstances are appropriate and that requires no learning of the behavior is called:
a. reproductive value
b. instinct
c. ethological action pattern
d. natural selection
b
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A researcher studying the effect of a dietary supplement on sleep finds that research participants who take the supplement sleep an average of 7 hours and 25 minutes per night, while participants who were given a placebo pill with no active ingredients in it sleep for an average of 7 hours and 20 minutes. These findings are likely a. statistically significant
b. clinically insignificant. c. Statistically insignificant. d. clinically significant.
A college's slogan is, "The tassel is worth the hassle.". This has bad implications because it
a. emphasizes performance goals rather than learning goals. b. focuses on the belief-desire theory of mind. c. fails to go beyond proprioceptive feedback. d. dooms the college graduate to attribution retraining.
A table in which the scores are grouped into intervals and listed along with the frequency of scores in each interval is a _____
a. bar graph b. histogram c. class interval frequency distribution d. class interval frequency polygon
Describe the strengths and weaknesses of the information-processing perspective
What will be an ideal response?