What was the effect on U.S. and Canadian students after they tried to list the Ten Commandments?
a. They performed better than usual on a memory task
b. They acted in a more extraverted way than they usually did.
c. They resisted a temptation to cheat.
d. They reported unusually complex dreams the next night.
c
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If you needed a personality inventory capable of measuring a person's degree of psychopathology, you would probably use
a. Cattell's 16 Personality Factor Questionnaire. b. the Edwards Personal Preference Schedule. c. the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory. d. factor analysis.
In his journal Mind, Darwin describes ____
a. the developmental stages of his son in relation to human evolution b. an ape whose mental processes are analyzed c. early theory that has since been the foundation of cognitive psychology d. simple stimuli that elicit the same responses in humans and animals e. the evolution of human mental functions
Which of the following possibilities is a serious concern with a repeated-measures study?
a. You will obtain negative values for the difference scores. b. The results will be influenced by order effects. c. The mean difference is due to individual differences rather than treatment differences. d. All of the other options are major concerns.
_____ was the FIRST to measure the speed of a nervous impulse.
A) Hermann von Helmholtz B) Paul Broca C) Wilhelm Wundt D) Pierre Flourens