As Guermo reads his psychology textbook, he relates new facts, terms, and concepts to his own experiences and to information he already knows well, a form of self-reflection called
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self-reference
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A) dopamine B) acetylcholine C) noradrenaline D) norepinephrine E) Select
With respect to internal validity, quasi-experiments often appear to be inferior to randomized experiments
a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Regarding the effects of deprivation and enrichment, which of the following statements is FALSE?
a. Impoverished children tend to be sick more often, their mental development lags, and they do poorly at school. b. The stresses of poverty can be hard on parents, leading to marriage problems, less positive parenting, and poorer parent-child relationships. c. Few adults who grew up in poverty have remained trapped in continued poverty. d. Many studies have shown that enriched environments improve the abilities or enhance the development of young children.
During the middle of the night, a woman away for a weekend visit suddenly has a strong impulse to return home. Which of the following statements is FALSE regarding how people interpret "hunches"?
a. If her hunch is confirmed, she and others may reinterpret it as clairvoyance. b. If her hunch is not confirmed, it will be forgotten. c. Most people do not realize that such coincidences between hunches and happenings occur quite often. d. When a person shows evidence of psi ability through premonitions, this person will be able to maintain this ability over a sustained period of time.