Late one night you are watching TV as an ad promoting magnetic pads to relieve pain comes on. You count more than 15 past customers appearing in the commercial claiming the product's effectiveness in relieving pain from injuries and arthritis. One customer is a former professional football star. You realize that the commercial is cleverly using:
A. debriefing
B. a placebo
C. testimonials
D. experimentation
Answer: C
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Because Baby Eddie has a pet dog, he thinks all animals have four legs and a tail, bark and are furry. The first time he sees a cat, this theory works until the cat meows. Baby Eddie must now change his original idea. This change in Baby Eddie's thinking so that he now knows that some animals called dogs bark and some animals called cats meow illustrates
a. assimilation. b. accommodation. c. abstraction. d. object permanence.
People whose main goal in life is to make lots of money tend to
a. have a high need for achievement. b. be intrinsically-motivated. c. be poorly adjusted and unhappy. d. be characterized by all of these.
An adolescent has just experienced menarche. This means that ________
a. the onset of menstruation has occurred. b. facial and chest hair have begun to appear. c. breasts have begun to develop and pubic hair has appeared. d. the testes have begun to mature and to produce sperm.
Why is it important that language elements are related to each other hierarchically?
A. Having a leveled structure makes it easier to encode and comprehend a variety of phonemes. B. A strictly hierarchical structure helps us to differentiate between spoken and written messages. C. A leveled structure allows us to invent new phrases, sentences, and paragraphs that others can understand and respond to. D. Hierarchical structure allows infants to acquire language systematically--first nouns, then verbs, then modifiers, and so on.