The original model for information-processing separated human thinking into capacities for __________.
attention, processing, and memory
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You are a new researcher in a social psychology lab. The study you are working on is examining the effects of alcohol on aggressiveness. You are aware of the hypotheses of the study and eager to find evidence that supports them, and you find yourself acting in a less polite manner with participants who are assigned to the alcohol condition. This differential treatment of participants across
conditions will threaten a. the statistical significance of the results. b. the internal validity of the study. c. the external validity of the study. d. the interrater reliability of the study.
If you were to accidentally touch a hot stove with your hand, you would quickly pull your hand away. The information carried to the muscles in your arm to make them contract was carried by ____.
A. efferent neurons B. afferent neurons C. intrinsic neurons D. sensory neurons
Sam and his siblings are modeling clay. He is the only child at the table who realizes that rolling a ball of clay into a thin line does not alter the amount of clay, and has been accused several times by his younger siblings of stealing their clay
Unlike the other children, Sam is in the __________ stage of development. a) preoperational b) sensorimotor c) concrete operations d) linear
Samantha was videotaping the interactions between toddlers in a preschool, as part of a research project. This type of research method that Samantha was using is called
a. ethnography. b. structured observation. c. naturalistic observation. d. self-reporting.