Richard has developed an intervention that he believes will improve the parenting skills of teenage fathers. He has observers rate the behavior of the fathers when their infants are less than one month old, provides the young men with parenting education, and then has the observers rate the interaction of the fathers and infants again when the babies are about six months old. One of the measures
Richard is using is the amount of eye contact maintained between the fathers and infants. He recognizes, however, that between one and six months of age, infants gain in both their ability to control head movement and in visual skills. This is best described as a(n) ____ threat.
a. history
b. maturation
c. instrumentation
d. testing
b
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The process by which the brain receives, selects, modifies, and organizes incoming nerve impulses that are the result of physical stimulation is called perception
a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false
If, in the example of a headache study used in the text, all subjects had been studied over the same period of time, differences that might be caused by stressful times (such as Christmas) would
a. contaminate the results. b. add to the usefulness of the results. c. improve the generalizability of the study. d. reduce the variability in the scores.
To access a client's cognitions, a behavior therapist would ask,
a. "What do you see in your mind?" b. "What are you saying to yourself?" c. "What are you thinking?" d. "What are you remembering?"
To discourage his children from smoking, a father shows them the extremely graphic pictures of withered, blackened, and perforated lungs of a dead smoker. Afterwards, when confronted with peers offering cigarettes, the “lung pictures” come into the children's minds. This is an example of ____.?
a. ?procedural knowledge b. ?auditory memory c. ?visual memory d. ?semantic memory