If you have been told that your group tends to do poorly on a particular test, you become distracted and fail to perform as well as you could. This tendency is known as ______ _______
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stereotype threat
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Simone is listening to her professor's lecture. Class is about to end when the professor previews the topic for the next meeting. "Next time," he says, "we will examine learning." Since Simone has done the assigned reading, she correctly thinks to herself:
A. "Let's see-that's when there is a temporary change in behavior that results from genetically programed development." B. "Oh, that's when there is permanent change in behavior that is due to maturation." C. "Learning-that's when there is a relatively permanent change in behavior or knowledge that results from previous experience with certain stimuli and responses." D. "Learning is the change in behavior that results from biological changes, fatigue, or injury."
The type of reliability that is used to assess the consistency of results across items within a test is _______________
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One of the most common mistakes people make with pets (especially dogs) is hitting them if they do not come when called. Thus, "calling" the animal becomes which of the following for fear and withdrawal?
a. a conditioned stimulus b. a conditioned response c. an unconditioned stimulus d. an unconditioned response
Which of the following is not an example of a constraint on language learning?
a. Children tend to think that a novel word refers to a whole object, not to just part of an object. b. Children treat new words as labels for unfamiliar objects rather than assigning the new word to an object for which they already know the word. c. Children ignore novel words unless an object is pointed to directly and at the same moment the new word is introduced. d. Children do not treat novel words as synonyms for words they already know.