According to legend, the inspiration for analytic geometry came to Descartes while he was ____
a. watching a fly crawl on the ceiling
c. watching a cat stalk a mouse
b. watching the clouds move
d. watching dancers perform onstage
A
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Anthony wears his lucky socks every time he has a baseball game because the socks were accidentally paired with a good RBI. Anthony's behavior is an example of
a. an unconditioned response. b. a superstitious behavior. c. a primary reinforcer. d. successive approximations.
Which of the following prenatal situations has NOT been shown to increase the risk of the developing child being more vulnerable to having schizophrenia later in life?
a. mother contracting influenza during the middle of her pregnancy b. mother contracting rubella during the middle of her pregnancy c. malnutrition during pregnancy d. having an extra chromosome at pair 16
Which of the following is NOT a danger signal in psychotherapy?
a. The therapist is controlling and blames the client for not making progress. b. The therapist makes verbal threats to the client. c. The therapist encourages prolonged dependence on him or her. d. The therapist refuses to talk about his or her own problems with the client.
The new fifth-grade teacher just arrived for her orientation session. The principal provided her with information on the class she will begin teaching next week,
including the group results on a state-required achievement test administered at the end of fourth grade. The principal tells the teacher that the students' average score was exactly at their grade level. What question should the teacher ask that will help her evaluate the information she has been given? a) What is the correlation between IQ scores and the state test scores? b) What percentage of the students come from homes that are in the poverty range? c) What is the degree of variability or spread around the average score on that test? d) What do the inferential statistics demonstrate about the scores obtained by this group of students?