A politician who irritates you is being interviewed on the evening news. You change channels so you won't have to listen to him. Your channel changing is
a. negatively reinforced.
b. a form of punishment.
c. positively reinforced.
d. a type of response cost.
A
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According to the research on flashbulb memories,
a. researchers agree that flashbulb memories are indeed more accurate than memories for other important events. b. people claim that they have accurate memories for these events, but many researchers have found that the memories contain inaccuracies. c. flashbulb memories are accurate only for unpleasant memories, rather than for pleasant ones. d. during the current era, no researcher has demonstrated more accurate recall for these significant life events.
A doctor has completed a three-year research project on patients with dissociative fugue. She has decided the next step is to run correlational studies on her data. The doctor is doing this to
A. determine if her sampling is representative. B. find trends and relationships among variables. C. find a cause-and-effect relationship. D. eliminate the possibility of experimenter bias.
Tiefer suggests that Masters and Johnson's model focuses exclusively on ____
a. power issues c. cultural differences b. emotionality d. adequate genital functioning
Which of the following is an example of survey research?
a. A researcher tracks smokers and nonsmokers to see how many of them get lung cancer and if there are significant differences in lung cancer rates between the two groups. b. A historian conducts an extensive study of the factors that led to the American defeat at Pearl Harbor in 1941. c. A researcher interviews taxpayers to find out how strongly they would support a proposal for a "flat" tax. d. A researcher randomly divides her participants into two groups, giving one group a powerful new medicine while the other group gets a placebo.