Bill recently found out that when he was a child, his dog, which he thought was lost, was actually stolen by a stranger. What could this example demonstrate?
a. retroactive interference c. failure of consolidation
b. repression d. none of these
B
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b. participants in the $20 condition experience insufficient justification for lying, and therefore are more likely toexhibit attitude change. c. participants in the $1 condition experience greater discomfort and agitation when lying about how fun the taskwas than do participants in the $20 condition. d. participants are only willing to lie to a fellow student when they are compensated generously for doing so.
Teenagers who study vocational subjects in high school will ____ classmates who major in abstract academic subjects
a. score worse on tests of formal operations than b. do equally well on formal operations tests as c. score better on formal operations tests than d. be more inclined to cheat on tests than
Imagine you are a psychologist trying to uncover the causes of schizophrenia. How would you approach this question from the perspective of a psychological detective?
What will be an ideal response?
What determines whether a baby will be a boy?
a) if the father contributes a Y chromosome b) if the father contributes an X chromosome c) if the mother contributes a Y chromosome d) if the mother contributes an X chromosome