__________ encourages learned-helpless children to believe that they can overcome failure by exerting more effort
A) Attribution retraining
B) Vicarious learning
C) Identity achievement
D) An ability-oriented approach
A
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a. Talk more about yourself and your accomplishments. b. Learn the art of conversational give and take. c. Make a point of being aware of current events. d. Keep your voice lower-pitched.
A psychologist wants to know if classical music enhances memory. Subjects are assigned to two groups and instructed to study a list of 20 words. One group listens to a Bach sonata and the other group hears popular music. In this simple experiment the independent variable is:
a. the word list. b. subsequent recall on a memory test. c. music type. d. the amount of time each group studied.
If a researcher gives a personality test to several individuals and compares their resulting personality profiles with actual observations of the individuals’ behavior, she is undoubtedly testing the ____ of the personality tests
a. ?reliability b. ?congruency c. ?validity d. ?standardization
Cognitive neuroscientists frequently study
a. insightful behavior. b. physiological reactions such as heart rate. c. the role of genetics in behavior. d. functions of the unconscious. e. the behavior of people with brain damage.