What behavior was being addressed in the Linscheid study?
What will be an ideal response?
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According to the theory of signal detection, perceptual judgments involve
a. decision processes only. b. an absolute threshold. c. sensory processes only. d. both sensory and decision processes.
What is meant by the phrase, “Psychology has a long past, but a short history”?
a. ?Although many negative events have characterized psychology’s past, many positive events have occurred in recent years. b. ?People have always been interested in explaining behavior, but psychology did not become a science until relatively recently. c. ?Psychology has been a science for hundreds of years, but only recently has the general public become interested in it. d. ?Although psychology has existed as a science for a very long time, it is being overshadowed by more exact sciences and will not likely survive beyond the current century.
The mechanic at your car dealership is discussing work that needs to be done to your "rack and pinion." What happens as this information enters your short-term memory?
a) Information from long-term memory is retrieved and used to make sense of what you are being told. b) The information you just heard is immediately encoded so that it can be rehearsed and used at a later time. c) Old memories related to the concept are erased so that the memory "slate" is cleared for new processing of information. d) The new words are repeated over and over again until they are finally placed in long-term memory, where they will be connected to existing memories.
A consulting firm is hired to come up with creative solutions to an increasing trend of group polarization in government legislatures. They suggest choosing group members on the basis of personality. Specifically, research has shown that group polarization is most reduced or prevented by
A. leaders, who can achieve consensus and get decisions made quickly. B. intellectuals, who are very careful to fully explore different possibilities fairly. C. people-pleasers, who are most concerned with group unity. D. rebels, who don't care how other people perceive them.