Most people get their knowledge about psychological topics not from scientific journals or academic-related books, but rather from _____
Fill in the blank with correct word
Answer: popular psychology (or the popular psychology industry) (teachers may wish to accept "pseudoscience" as an acceptable answer)
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The technique of stress inoculation was popularized by
a. Hans Selye. b. Martin Seligman. c. Redford Williams. d. Donald Meichenbaum.
Which of the following words, when used in the question, "How fast were the cars going
when one of them __________ into the other?" likely would result in the greatest estimate of speed by an eyewitness to the accident? a. collided b. bumped c. hit d. smashed e. contacted
The condition called delirium tremens, also known as the DTs, involves hallucinations and body tremors during withdrawal from
A. heroin. B. cocaine. C. alcohol. D. marijuana.
The type of learning in which the consequences of behavior are manipulated to increase or decrease the frequency of the behavior, or to shape an entirely new behavior, is _____
a) operant conditioning. b) classical conditioning. c) insight learning. d) social-cognitive learning.