Your roommate keeps interrupting your studying even though you have asked her to stop. Should you ignore her completely or occasionally respond for the sake of good manners?
What will be an ideal response?
From a behavioral view, you should ignore her completely because intermittent reinforcement (attention) could cause her interruptions to persist.?
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Shanda is afraid of failing one of her final exams, primarily because she thinks the professor gives hard exams, and so no matter how much studying she does, it won't matter. Social cognitive theorists would suggest that Shanda has an __________.
A. external locus of control B. internal locus of control C. introverted personality D. extroverted personality
After birth newborns generally lose approximately 10% of their birth weight in fluid loss. How long does it take to gain it back?
About a week 8 days About 2 weeks 2 days
What can result from an investigator repeatedly checking the data before all of the results are run?
a) Low reliability b) Low validity c) High bias d) High selection
Somers et al. (2006 ) reviewed the results of 41 international epidemiological studies and found that the one-year and lifetime prevalence rates for total anxiety disorders were _____ respectively
a) 3.1% and 6.6% b) 7.4% and 14.1% c) 10.6% and 16.6% d) 11.2% and 18.2%