If one is waiting to purchase an item from the vending machine and the person in front loses some money and one decides not to risk losing one's money and uses another machine, this is known as social:
A. discrimination
B. transmission
C. learning
D. conformity
Answer: B. transmission
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If one tone predicts food (causing conditioned salivation), and a different tone does not, what happens?
a. Discrimination b. Stimulus generalization c. Spontaneous recovery d. Variable-interval responding
A 45-year-old woman suddenly becomes aware of long-forgotten memories of being sexually abused by her father when she was 6 years old. Her father denies the allegations. This case can be described as a typical example associated with the
a. memory reconstruction controversy. b. false allegation controversy. c. recovered memory controversy. d. memory retrieval controversy.
Infant developmental scales such as the Bayley Scales have been found to be
a. poor predictors of later IQ because IQ is an unstable attribute. b. good predictors of later IQ because intelligence is so highly canalized. c. good predictors of later IQ because intelligence is such a stable attribute. d. poor predictors of later IQ, probably because infant tests and later IQ tests tap different abilities.
Based on their research, some scientists believe that ________
a. adolescents who commit violent crimes should be tried as adults because their cognitive abilities and moral reasoning abilities are like those of an adult. b. full neurological and cognitive maturity often does not occur until about age 25, and many teenagers who commit crimes should be considered "less guilty by reason of adolescence." c. the human brain is fully developed around 10 years of age, so the risky, dumb, or criminal things adolescents do should be blamed entirely on hormonal changes. d. adolescents should be considered as adults in the eyes of the law as soon as they have completed puberty, because physically they are adults at that point.