William has been working diligently on an engineering project, but he has gotten to the point that he sees no way to a viable solution. So, he sets aside the problem and works on another project. By setting aside the problem, William is allowing problem-solving to proceed at a subconscious level. This stage of creative thinking is known as
a. incubation.
b. illumination.
c. preparation.
d. verification.
A
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a. assuming conception occurredtwo weeks after the beginning of a woman's last menstrual cycle. b. counting ahead nine months from the date the woman learned she was pregnant. c. counting forward from the date the woman believes she conceived. d. pregnancies are not dated as there is too much variability from woman to woman.
A set of scores ranges from a high of X = 24 to a low of X = 5 . If these scores were put in a frequency distribution table with an interval width of 2 points, which of the following would be the top interval in the table?
a. 4-5 c. 24-25 b. 23-24 d. 22-24
According to Freed & Tompson, 2011, children whose mothers were depressed and had little education or income were likely to:
a. have an extraverted personality. c. develop an internal locus of control. b. have a high level of self-efficacy. d. develop an external locus of control.
In one of his early studies, Pavlov repeatedly paired a new CS, a black square, with the now reliable tone. After a number of training trials, his dogs produced a salivary response to the black square even though the square itself had never been directly associated with the food. What learning principle does this illustrate?
A. acquisition B. rehearsal C. consolidation D. second-order conditioning E. spontaneous recovery