Suppose that you are conducting an experiment to see whether receiving negative feedback from an authority figure will increase eating behavior. After writing an essay, half of your research participants are given negative feedback from a professor, and half are given encouraging feedback. All participants are then placed in a room with a large container of cookies and their eating behavior is
observed. In this study, an operational definition for the dependent variable might be ____.
a. whether participants received critical or encouraging feedback
b. the number of words in each participant's essay
c. the number of cookies each participant ate
d. how many minutes the professor spent giving each participant feedback
C
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a. graceful degradation. b. reassignment of connection weights. c. spontaneous generalization. d. a default assignment.
Spanking is an example of:
A. negative reinforcement B. negative punishment C. positive punishment D. time out
Which of the following is NOT an example of self-efficacy?
a. Trying new alternatives when one approach doesn't work. b. Finding excuses if something doesn't work. c. Believing you can affect what happens to you. d. Facing life's difficulties with energy.
Bodybuilders show off their muscles by __________.
A. activating their autonomic nervous system B. willing the activation of their extensor muscles C. willing the activation of their flexor muscles D. simultaneously contracting their flexor and extensor muscles