Loraine is planning to spend most of her time studying for a physiology class this semester. As a result, she knows that she will have little time to study for her psychology class. She is planning to make up for her limited study time by cramming all night for her psychology exams. Loraine should be told that
a. spaced practice is more effective at boosting retention than massed practice.
b. she should choose an interesting playlist for her iPod while she studies psychology. c. chunking may be an effective approach to learning large amounts of information.
d. she should rely heavily on visual cues and visual imagery to make learning occur faster. e. she needs to embed the psychological information in easily remembered rhymes.
a
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The mean worldview involves
a. overestimating one's chances of being involved in a violent incident. b. stereotyping sexual, racial, or ethnic roles. c. concluding that your beliefs are typical of the "average" person watching TV. d. reducing cognitive dissonance through group contact.
Research by Bell and colleagues concluded that homosexuality is
a. determined before adolescence and prior to sexual activity. b. the result of child molestation. c. caused by seduction of a person of the same sex by an older person. d. accompanied by emotional maladjustments. e. caused by poor parent-child relationships.
If we postulate that introverts have an innately higher level of central nervous system arousal, this is an application of
A) Pavlov's theory of the classical conditioning of traits. B) Freud's theory of the hydraulic nature of the id. C) Buss's theory of the evolution of homeostatic mechanisms. D) Eysenck's linking of the dimension of introversion to biology.
Explain the role of an interaction effect in a complex design in establishing the external validity of each independent variable entering into the interaction effect. Be sure to describe what happens to external validity both when an interaction effect is and is not present. Finally, explain why you might be cautious in using interaction effects to establish the external validity of the effect of an independent variable.
What will be an ideal response?