Using a future criterion to evaluate the criterion validity of an instrument is called
a. predictive validity.
b. concurrent validity.
c. discriminant validity.
d. content validity.
a
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____, the most radically mechanistic of the British empiricists, claimed that the mind is a machine and that there is no freedom of the will, believing instead that the mind is totally a passive entity and all thought can be analyzed in terms of sensations.?
a. John Stuart Mill? b. ?David Hume c. ?John Locke d. ?James Mill e. ?George Berkeley
In Pavlov's experiments on second-order conditioning, dogs were conditioned to salivate at the sight of a black square:
A) by pairing it with food. B) by rewarding the dog with food when it salivated in the presence of the black square. C) by presenting food first and then following it with the black square. D) even though the black square was never directly associated with food.
In an experimental study of the effects of practice on reaction time, practice would be the:
a. control group. b. independent variable. c. experimental group. d. dependent variable.
The notion that physiological arousal is not the result of an emotional experience but is instead the sole mechanism that produces an emotional experience is referred to as the ______ of emotion.
A. Schacter-Singer theory B. Behavioral theory C. Cannon theory D. James-Lange theory