Learning to recognize different automobile brands, animals, types of music, and even the answers on psychology tests all depend, in part, on
a. respondent conditioning.
b. systematic desensitization.
c. operant stimulus discrimination.
d. primary positive reinforcements.
C
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Marcus wants to know whether or not his daughter, Rebekah, can perceive different distances and depths. He wants to fashion a simple experiment to make this conclusion. Based on the work of Gibson and Walk, what sort of contraption could he build to test Rebekah's depth perception?
a. a visual cliff b. an operant chamber c. a Skinner box d. a galvanic skin sensor
According to Erikson, an adolescent who fails to develop more purposeful, responsible, adult-like behaviors will experience:
A. role confusion B. egocentric thinking C. a justice orientation D. postconventional moral reasoning
Tannen's theory that the way males and females learn languages in different cultures is based on the idea that
a. girls and boys play separately and girls' groups are often structured in terms of status roles. b. like cross-cultural communications, there are many opportunities for misunderstandings. c. communication styles primarily develop in adulthood. d. males and females would use the same communication style if they were allowed to participate in more mixed-gender debates in school.
Manipulating the _____ best distinguishes experimental research methods from other research methods
a. dependent variable b. intervening variable c. statistical results d. independent variable