The text described a survey that asked a representative sample of middle school students to respond to 17 motives for playing violent video games on a four-point scale. Surprisingly, around 20% of boys indicated that they liked to play these games in order to ____
a. compete and win
b. help get their anger out
c. reduce boredom
d. make friends and teach others
ANSWER:
b
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a. instrumental learning. b. latent learning. c. covert conditioning. d. respondent conditioning.
Which of the following statements is an example of a reinforcement contingency?
a. A child's mother will give him what he wants, but only if he says "please." b. When a door is closed, you should knock before entering. c. Hotdogs and peanuts go together, because both are sold at baseball games. d. If the recipe says to preheat the oven, you should turn it on before mixing the ingredients.
A major issue that many people have with Freud's theory is
A) that our awareness of the causes for our behaviors is quite good. B) he overemphasized the importance of the conscious mind. C) the generalization of his ideas from an unrepresentative sample. D) he underemphasized the importance of shared environmental influences in personality development.
An educational psychologist is interested in determining whether attitudes toward school change with age. She randomly selects 30 seventh-graders, 30 ninth-graders, and 30 eleventh-graders and administers a "Do you like school?" test. In terms of ANOVA symbols, what is the value of N in the experiment?
a. 3 c. 30 b. 90 d. 1