If an infant has learned to push buttons on a toy to get it to make funny sounds, and now the toy is changed so that she must turn the buttons to the left or right to hear the sounds
The learning this requires would best be considered an example of:
a. metacognition
b. assimilation
c. equilibration
d. accommodation
d
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Which of the following statements is true of people with an external locus of control?
a) They see their behavior and relationships with others as dependent on their own behavior. b) They see their behavior and relationships with the environment and others as contingent on forces outside themselves and beyond their control. c) They feel themselves to be more self-efficacious when their agency is made explicit, leading to greater feelings of autonomy and efficacy. d) They need to worry about interpersonal harmony less because their group shares the goal of control.
A culture in which the sense of self is tied to personal accomplishments s best described as
a. archetypal. b. self-actualized. c. individualistic. d. humanistic. e. collectivistic.
Answer the following statements true (T) or false (F)
1. The temporal code better accounts for how we perceive high-pitched sounds than the place code. 2. Hearing aids, which amplify sound waves entering the auditory canal, are commonly prescribed to treat sensorineural hearing loss. 3. Damage to the ossicles may result in conductive hearing loss. 4. Thermoreceptors in the skin detect pressure and vibration. 5. Pressure receptors in the skin are the primary sensory receptor neurons involved in the perception of pain caused by skin injury.
The neutral stimulus/unconditioned stimulus pairing:
(a) is nearly automatic after the first presentation (b) must occur several times to reliably produce a conditioned response (c) becomes less intense with each presentation (d) works only in cases involving food