According to Lee, Zimbardo, and Bertholf, sudden murderers, like Fred Cowan described in your textbook, tend to
a. be quiet and overcontrolled.
b. kill in furious, frenzied attacks.
c. have amnesia for their violent actions.
d. exhibit all of these characteristics.
D
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Class inclusion is the ability to
a. focus on subclasses and a larger class at the same time. b. sort things into sequence based upon one characteristic. c. think about objects that are not currently present. d. reverse one's thinking, such as being able to subtract.
Two babies that come from different fertilized eggs may be
A. siblings. B. dizygotic twins C. unrelated D. all of the above
Dr. Paulus conducts a study that compares the success of two 8-week weight-loss regimens. She uses statistics to compare the mean number of pounds lost by participants in each condition and comes up with a p-value of .08 . What is the safest conclusion for her to draw?
a. The results of the study are statistically significant. b. The difference in mean weight loss between groups may have been caused by chance alone. c. The difference in mean weight loss between groups was too great to have been a chance finding. d. One could expect similar levels of weight loss in the population at large.
Which of the following would be a good summary of perceptual development?
a. Babies are not very sophisticated information processors. b. Perceptual development reveals an adaptive order that capitalizes on experience. c. Infants perceive the world much as adults do. d. Children are quite advanced in development before they can integrate their senses.