Which term describes the wariness displayed by infants when they encounter an unfamiliar person?
A. nonverbal decoding
B. separation anxiety
C. stranger anxiety
D. social anxiety
Answer: C
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Ada is participating in a replication of the longitudinal study by Tomlinson-Keasey and colleagues in which she is given the same five concrete-operational tasks at five different ages. If Ada is similar to the other children who participated in this study, we can expect that she will __________.
A. get gradually better with age at some tasks but not others B. show a dramatic gain in task performance between ages 7 and 8 on all tasks C. show gradual gains across age on all tasks between 6 and 9 years of age D. show performance that is quite similar across tasks at each age, indicating that a single underlying ability was changing with age
Activity of a muscle spindle is to ____ as activity of the Golgi tendon organ is to ____
a. contraction; inhibition of contraction b. inhibition of contraction; contraction c. inhibition of contraction; inhibition of contraction d. contraction; contraction
Which of the following is an example of a "supertrait" in Eysenck's theory?
A. Sociability B. Impulsiveness C. Optimism D. Psychoticism
According to Bower's findings which of the following should be least remembered after reading a story about going to a restaurant?
a. the color of the menu c. waiting to be seated b. eating the meal d. leaving the tip