Molly and her infant son often engage each other in a "love-stare" in which each looks and smiles at the other for extended periods of time. The word that best describes this back-and-forth relationship would be:
a. social referencing
b. synchrony
c. imprinting
d, empathy
b
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Investigators in the World Health Organization (WHO) predict that, relative to other types of health problems, the burden of mental health disorders will _________________ by 2020
a. increase b. decrease c. stay about the same d. increase in developing countries and decrease in developed countries
How did the transition from walking on four legs to two legs influence the evolution of human somatosenses?
a. ?There was more evolutionary pressure for the development of somatosenses and less pressure on vision and audition. b. ?There was less evolutionary pressure for the development of somatosenses and more pressure on vision and audition. c. ?Somatosenses evolved from top-down to bottom-up processing. d. ?Somatosenses evolved from bottom-up to top-down processing.
Which of the following definitions for the term "foresight bias" is most accurate?
a. A foresight bias occurs when the researchers try to anticipateâ€"in advanceâ€"the problems with a study. b. Foresight bias occurs when researchers examine the dependent variables to see whether they will be high in external validity. c. Foresight bias occurs when people judge their mastery of some material that they have been studying, although they have been using an inappropriate mnemonic device. d. Foresight bias occurs when people are too confident that they will do well on a future exam, based on the estimates they make while studying the material
Poorly substantiated information is known as:
a. rumor b. gossip c. noise d. probability