Which of the following factors is most likely to have an effect on predictions made by the Yerkes-Dodson Law?
a) task instructions
b) gender of person doing the task
c) age of person doing the task
d) difficulty of task
ANS: d
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a. Education b. Prompts c. Simple reasoning d. Having people make public commitments
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A) unconditioned stimulus; conditioned response B) conditioned stimulus; unconditioned stimulus C) unconditioned stimulus; unconditioned response D) conditioned stimulus; unconditioned response E) unconditioned stimulus; conditioned stimulus
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A. nominal B. ordinal C. interval D. ratio
Are the wealthier people in the twenty-first century happier?
What will be an ideal response?