What is the probability of drawing either a club or a spade from a standard (52-card) deck of playing cards?
a. .25
b. .50
c. .75
d. 1.0
b
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a. people's expectations lead them to experience some change, even though they receive a fake or ineffective treatment. b. people who originally score extremely high or low on some trait are measured a second time, and their new score falls closer to the average. c. people recover from a mental or physical illness without any form of intervention. d. people who originally score near the average on some trait are measured a second time, and their new score falls at the extreme high or low end of the scale.
Fritz Heider analyzed what he called "common sense psychology"—the ways in which people explain everyday events. He suggested that most people explain everyday events in terms of either ____ factors
a. stable or unstable b. internal or external c. global or specific d. convergent or divergent
How are cultural considerations handled in the DSM-5 section on depression?
a. It has separate diagnostic criteria to be used in each of the industrialized nations. b. It indicates that individuals from certain cultures are more likely to report somatic ailments than psychological ailments. c. It notes that in many cultures the preferred treatment of exorcism is "spiritual cleansing.". d. It emphasizes that cultural and developmental variations are irrelevant to diagnosis and treatment.
Feedback, reinforcement, observation, and imitation are examples of ____ related to language acquisition.
A. innate factors B. environmental factors C. transformational rules D. semantics