According to your text, the residents of Miami are already being affected by which environmental problem?
a. global warming
b. air pollution
c. nuclear waste leakage
d. overpopulation
Answer: A
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Brett is visiting a psychiatrist, where he will receive psychotherapy. Is this typical?
A. yes; psychiatrists typically provide psychotherapy B. no; psychiatrists are not trained to provide psychotherapy C. no; less than 30% of visits to psychiatrists involve psychotherapy D. maybe; about half of all visits to psychiatrists involve psychotherapy
A behavior therapist wants to reward a language delayed child for saying a new word, but rewards the child first for saying the first letter sound and then another letter sound, and so on. The language therapist is using
a. shaping. b. stimulus control. c. a hierarchy. d. nonreinforcement.
Why have psychologists encountered difficulties with using intelligence tests with children from different cultural backgrounds?
a) The children did not respond to the person giving the examination because they had been instructed by their parents not to trust that individual. b) The children tended to resist answering the questions because they were all written in English. c) The tests were too easy for most children, irrespective of background, and thus were not a valid measure of intellectual skill. d) The tests did not account for those backgrounds and led to stereotypes about the intelligences of kids from specific racial and ethnic groups.
Your one-year old sister picks up objects feels every part of them, and then puts them in her mouth. What stage of Jean Piaget's model of cognitive development does this behavior suggest she is in?
a) concrete operations b) sensorimotor c) preoperational d) formal operations