What is peak shift?
What will be an ideal response?
Peak shift is where the highest rates of responding do not occur to the SD but to a stimulus slightly removed from the SD and in the opposite direction from the S.
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b. religious delusions. c. brain disease. d. demons and witches.
Hypnosis begins with a hypnotic induction. In part, this process
a. encourages participants to fall asleep. b. involves the use of anesthesia. c. distracts participants so they do not realize that they are being hypnotized. d. minimizes external distractions and encourages concentration.
Which of the following accurately describes the effect of increasing the sample size?
A) ?Increases the standard error and has no effect on the risk of a Type I error B) ?Decreases the standard error and has no effect on the risk of a Type I error C) ?Increases the risk of a Type I error and has no effect on the standard error D) ?Decreases the risk of a Type I error and has no effect on the standard error
In 95 percent of cases, Down syndrome results from ________.
A. an extra broken piece of a twenty-first chromosome attaching to another chromosome B. an error during early prenatal cell duplication C. a failure of the twenty-first pair of chromosomes to separate during meiosis D. the inheritance of an extra X chromosome