When we take the absolute value of the deviation scores while calculating a measure of variability, we are using the _____
a. average deviation
b. standard deviation
c. range
d. mean
a
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b. Seguin Form Board. c. Wechsler-Bellevue Intelligence Scale. d. Yerkes Personal Data Sheet.
The findings of the classic Fastinger and Carl smith (1959) experiment indicate that a. participants paid $20 to lie about how fun a boring task was come to believe they actually enjoyed the taskmore than participants paid $1 to lie
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.
Because redintegration, relearning, and priming can recover seemingly forgotten memories, this fact casts doubt on which of the following types of forgetting?
a. memory decay b. disuse c. encoding failure d. eidetic imaging
Rescorla provided evidence that supported his theory by _____
a) examining the brains of his rat subjects in a conditioning experiment. b) presenting a conditioned stimulus with and without the unconditioned stimulus. c) pairing conditioned and unconditioned stimuli only once. d) pairing the unconditioned stimulus with several neutral stimuli.