A research study finds that children whose parents read bedtime stories to them every night score higher on intelligence tests than children whose parents do not routinely read stories. This study is an example of ________.
a. a correlational design
b. a cause-and-effect relationship
c. a field experiment
d. random assignment
a. a correlational design
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In conditioning the immune system of a rat, the UCR would be the ____.
A. allergy-producing substance B. allergic reaction C. flashing light D. salivation
Which of the following is a goal of psychology?
A) To establish behavioral and moral standards B) To explain behavior and mental processes C) To change social norms D) To seek ways to make people do their religious bidding
Regarding early language development, which of the following statements is FALSE?
a. Six-week-old babies will gaze at an adult's face in rhythm with the adult's speech. b. Infants as young as four months engage in vocal turn-taking with adults. c. The more children interact with parents, the faster they learn to talk and the faster they learn thinking abilities. d. The interchanges between parents and infants under ten months of age do not represent real communication.
Light waves from a blue shirt stimulate different photoreceptors than light waves coming from a red shirt. The fact that we see these shirts as two different colors can be explained by _____
a. trichromatic theory b. hyperopia c. opponent process theory d. motion parallax