Erin, says, "I can't do it" and her father, Bruce, says, "Try harder.". Erin then replies, "It does not matter how hard I try. I will never be good at it like Timmy.". This could be an example of
a. self-monitoring.
b. high self-efficacy.
c. learned helplessness. d. industry.
c
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For children with brain-related illnesses, the areas of neurocognitive functioning most likely to be affected by the primary effects of their illnesses are ____
a. verbal abilities and attention functions b. nonverbal abilities and attention functions c. verbal abilities and long-term memory functions d. attention functions and long-term memory functions
Followers of structuralism such as Edward Titchener used the method known as __________________ to study the mind by having people provide rigorous reports of their internal experiences
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When analyzing data from experiments that involve more than two groups _________
a. doing t tests on all possible pairs of means decreases the probability of making Type I errors b. doing t tests on all possible pairs of means increases the probability of making Type I errors c. it is generally permissible to do t tests between all possible pairs of means and use Student's t distribution d. doing t tests on all possible pairs of means increases the probability of making Type II errors
One of the reasons to study psychology is to
a. better understand human behavior. b. learn how to manipulate others for personal gain. c. utilize it in combination with the field of astrology in predicting human behavior. d. have the answers to all of life's questions.