Renee has an idea of how her living room ought to look. She is moving the furniture, paintings, and accessories to get closer to that picture in her head. Renee is using the problem-solving technique of ________.
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
means-ends analysis
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Which question would be of most interest to a social psychologist who studies behavioral genetics?
a. To what extent are attitudes inherited? b. What brain structures are involved in describing the self? c. Does high self-esteem help people to resist disease? d. What role does testosterone play in aggression?
Before real exposure to the feared situation or object in therapy, the person with the phobia:
A. is given antidepressant drugs B. undergoes electroconvulsive therapy C. imagines the feared situation or object D. undergoes dream analysis
In a classic memory study by Peterson and Peterson (1959), participants were given consonant strings to remember—such as DBX and HLM—and then instructed to count backwards from 100 by 3. After a variable amount of time, the participants were asked to recall the consonant strings. Asking participants to count backwards effectively prevents:
A) sensory storage. B) iconic memory. C) short-term storage. D) rehearsal.
Piaget believed that object permanence:
A) is present at birth. B) develops in the first 2 months of life. C) develops in the sensorimotor stage. D) develops in the preoperational stage.