Several students wanted to test a psychic who claimed to be able to move a pencil across a table without touching it. The psychic agreed to participate. When a glass partition was placed between the psychic and the pencil,
he failed every attempt to move the pencil. The students demonstrated that they were able to move the pencil by blowing it across the table (without the partition in place). What basic principle did the students use in arriving at their conclusion about the supposed psychic feat?
a) Weber's law
b) transduction
c) law of parsimony
d) Gestalt law of perception
ANS: c
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a. incorporating a variety of relevant stimulus situations in training b. teaching a range of functionally equivalent responses c. reinforcing occurrences of generalization d. incorporating self-generated mediators of generalization
Newborns prefer human milk to formula.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
At 20 months, Katy says "pah-getty" (spaghetti) whenever she wants to eat and says "milk" when she wants something to drink. She also calls her mother "Mama" and her father "Dada" and her cat "Kitty.". Katy is most likely in the which stage of language development?
a. cooing b. babbling c. telegraphic d. single-word
Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
Reality negotiation tends to be dictated by the views of the majority of people.