According to the text, early behaviorists overlooked a crucial element in their theories of personality, which is the fact that
a. much of behavior is affected by the situation in which it occurs.
b. behaviors are identical to personality, which is shaped by learning.
c. people have stable traits that are unchanged by experience.
d. people think and have different perceptions and expectations.
D
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a. a stressful event. b. a counterbalance for stress in other areas. c. stressful if it affects personal relationships. d. stressful if it were unexpected, but not stressful if it were expected.
Since the death penalty's reinstatement, Texas has executed _______ people
A. 98 B. 257 C. 403 D. 516
Joe has been a homicide detective in Colorado Springs for several years, and he is good at his job. He is often called on by other detectives to help with difficult cases. Which of the following reflects his fluid intelligence?
a. Joe has comprehensive knowledge of ballistics, including the identification of weapons and interpretation of angle and distance of firing. b. Joe knows the history of local gangs and their allegiances from his years on the job. c. Joe finds that when he reads through a file, a detail will leap out at him as peculiar to the flow of events, which then helps to focus the direction of the investigation. d. Joe has learned a great deal about the psychology of domestic violence, which can be the underlying trigger of a homicide.
The Mann-Whitney Utest is appropriate for analyzing data from a _____ design using _____
levels of an independent variable. a. within-subjects; two b. within-subjects; three or more c. between-subjects; two d. between-subjects; three or more