Early studies using the Test Anxiety Scale demonstrated that test-anxious students
a. tended to be very self-confident.
b. are anxious in nearly all social situations.
c. tend to focus attention on themselves in test-taking situations rather than on the test.
d. are anxious because they are so tightly focused on the test.
c
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Hye-su is thinking about how proud her parents are that she is in college, and how much they believe in her. This makes her feel more capable about her ability to succeed in college. Hye-su is benefiting from
a. implicit social support. b. explicit social support. c. internal motivation. d. external motivation.
Thorndike studied how cats can become progressively faster escaping a locked box; Pavlov studied how dogs associate a bell sound with upcoming food. What is the crucial difference between these two avenues of research?
A. Thorndike focused on consequences of behavior, and Pavlov focused on environmental cues B. Thorndike was a structuralist, and Pavlov was a behaviorist. C. Thorndike was studying behavior not also seen in humans. D. Thorndike was studying classical conditioning, and Pavlov was studying cognitive learning.
An auditory stimulus (CS) is first paired with ethanol (UCS) in rats in one context. Once established, the auditory stimulus is then extinguished in a second context. When the rat is placed in the original context, what will occur?
A. The auditory conditioned stimulus will elicit the conditioned response. B. The auditory conditioned stimulus will not elicit the conditioned response. C. The auditory stimulus will cause an increase in responding then a decrease. D. The auditory stimulus will cause a decrease in responding then an increase.
In thought-action-fusion, the person with this characteristic blurs the distinction between:
a) The obsession and the compulsion b) Thinking about an event and reacting as if it has occurred c) The negative expression and the positive expression of emotional feelings d) None of the above