After reading about the possible causes of schizophrenia, a scientist thinks that a virus is the most likely cause. What term most accurately describes the scientist's idea?
a) hypothesis
b) dependent variable
c) extraneous variable
d) experimental estimate
ANS: A, A hypothesis is an "educated guess" based on solid information.
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Rough-and-tumble play
a. is simply an expression of aggression. b. helps with physical and social development. c. increases as children get older. d. is specific to American culture.
According to the spatial framework model described by Franklin and Tversky,
a. people can make decisions equally quickly about all directions. b. people turn their head in the specified direction, so that the major relevant variable is the amount that their head is turned. c. people base their responses on propositional codings of all three relevant dimensions. d. the above/below direction has special prominence in our mental maps.
Regarding distance therapy, which of the following statements is FALSE?
a. Today, psychological services are available in the home through radio, television, telephone, and the Internet. b. Distance therapies are generally more expensive than traditional face-to-face sessions. c. Distance therapies make therapy available to people who, for a variety of reasons, cannot easily attend a traditional face-to-face session. d. Many mass media psychologists stress that their work is educational, not therapeutic.
Temporal summation is to ____ as spatial summation is to ____.
A. time; location B. EPSP; IPSP C. location; time D. depolarization; hyperpolarization