During the past 3 months, you have had several bouts of the flu. Recently, you went to a restaurant where you consumed a new food you had never tasted before. That evening you became sick. However, you do not associate eating this new food with being sick. This is called ______.
A. contrast blocking
B. overshadowing
C. cue confabulation
D. UCS preexposure effect
D. UCS preexposure effect
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Children in one study were given an opportunity to imitate an aggressive model after watching a videotape of the model. The researchers found that the aggressive behavior was most likely to be imitated when the
A. experimenter was out of the room. B. children had not been frustrated earlier. C. aggression was performed with a toy the child liked. D. model was a male.
Researcher Lesley Lambright (2003) studied Vietnamese
individuals and examined how their multicultural background played a role in their survival of centuries of warfare. Lambright was approaching this study from the _____ school of thought. Fill in the blank with correct word
A major limitation of systematic observation is that it
A) provides little information on how participants actually behave. B) underestimates the capacities of individuals who have difficulty putting their thoughts into words. C) tells investigators little about the reasoning behind responses and behaviors. D) ignores participants with poor memories, who may have trouble recalling exactly what happened.
The study of the frequency and distribution of a disorder, or a group of disorders in a population is known as
A. epidemiology. B. disease diffusion mapping. C. quantitative correlation. D. biostatistics.