An infant looks at her bottle and utters a sound with a rising pitch, or inflection. Her mother realizes she is asking if she can have the bottle because of the ______ in the infant's voice
a. intonation c. cooing
b. babbling d. relativity
a
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Research on effort justification and cognitive dissonance theory most directly suggests that ____
a. fraternity "hazing" is an effective way to promote group loyalty b. most people engage in social loafing c. twelve-person juries are likely to come up with different verdicts than are juries with four or fewer people d. most people look to others when deciding how to behave in a group context
Jessica has problems concentrating and, as such, does not perceive the information she reads in her textbook as well as she should. Jessica has a problem with _____ of information.
A) storage B) encoding C) retrieval D) semantics
What is O*NET?
a) an online database dedicated to networking, ergonomics, and training b) a social network of employment counselors c) an online source of information about knowledge, skills, and abilities needed to perform a wide variety of jobs d) the professional organization for I/O psychologists
While shopping at a department store, an ambitious young saleswoman walks up to you. "Would you like to try our newest perfume? It's called Allure,
and it is guaranteed to get the attention of that special someone because it is formulated with real human pheromones!" Because you've recently had an interest in a new "special someone," what would be your best option in this situation? a. Buy the perfume as a gift for your "special someone" because wearing it will increase their interest in you. b. Buy the perfume, but only wear it during warm temperatures, since human reception of pheromones is influenced by ambient heat. c. Buy the perfume, since human beings, like other mammals, are producers and receivers of pheromones. d. Smile and politely decline, since there is no credible evidence that such products have any effect on human beings whatsoever.