Brendan, a lawyer, spends hours before each trial prepping his clients for their testimony. He pays careful attention to how they tell their side to see if their depiction appears fabricated. Research on lying suggests that his client is more likely to be lying if they
A. tell a story lacking sufficient detail.
B. are easily able to tell the story backwards from end to beginning.
C. do not say the words "um" or "uh" during their story.
D. do not make eye contact during the story.
Answer: A
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In psychological research, investigators sample individuals' behavior at different times or in different situations. The goal of sampling behavior is to
A. obtain as many observations as possible. B. infer causes of people's behavior. C. insure the highest possible interobserver reliability. D. obtain a representative sample of behavior.
Self instructional training was developed by
a. Jacobson. b. Meichenbaum. c. Beck. d. Goldfried.
The advent of _____ in the 1950s had an enormous conceptual impact on the development of cognitive psychology.
A) statistical programming B) television C) conditioning chambers D) computers
Sometimes researchers use estimation of population means, rather than hypothesis tests. These estimations are based on a. the standard error of the mean. b. the standard deviation
c. the z test. d. confidence intervals.