You are told that you obtained a score of 35 on a psychological test, and the examiner tells you that "there's a 95 percent chance that your true score falls somewhere between 30 and 40." This statement is an example of a(n) ____________.

When the anterior cingulate cortex becomes overactive, what then occurs in depressed patients?

A. Negative emotions overwhelm thinking and emotion. B. Phenothiazines are released in massive quantities in the brain. C. Thinking becomes clearer. D. Mood improves significantly.

Finding out why clients diagnosed with schizophrenia do not consistently take their medication would be an example of ____

a. basic research b. applied research c. pseudoresearch d. common sense research

With operant conditioning, any event or stimulus that decreases the frequency of the behavior it follows is referred to as:

a. a punishment b. a conditioned stimulus c. a reinforcement d. an unconditioned stimulus

One of the most serious limitations of the work of Masters and Johnson is that they did not ________

a. include enough subjects who were readily orgasmic. b. conduct research to see how experience and culture influence physiological responses. c. follow up their survey research findings with laboratory work. d. study whether or not the source of stimulation influenced orgasm.