Since the 1960s, the rate of smoking in the United States has:
a. been about the same
b. increased a substantial amount
c. increased slightly
d. decreased a substantial amount
D
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According to the personality-type theory of ____, people find their work fulfilling when the important features of a job or profession fit the worker's personality characteristics
a. Linda Subich b. Linda Gottfredson c. John Holland d. Donald Super
An experimenter presents a subject with a series of tones. During each trial of the experiment, the experimenter signals the start of the trial by saying "ready," plays the tone, and then asks whether the subject heard it. The experiment begins with a fairly loud, clearly audible tone; on each subsequent trial, the loudness of the tone is reduced at a constant rate of 10 decibels until the
subject does not hear the tone. The experimenter then starts a second series of trials with a tone too low to be heard and increases the volume gradually until the subject reports hearing the tone. What is the experimenter trying to measure? a. absolute threshold b. perceptual defense c. method of limits d. difference threshold
When a frequency distribution is constructed, the ____ appears on the x-axis
a. number of individuals who make each response b. responses of the participants c. independent variable d. dependent variable
You hear a speaker at a scientific seminar say something that sounds like, "It is easy to wreck a nice beach." You know that the topic of the talk is language comprehension, so you decide that what the speaker really said was, "It is easy to recognize speech." In making this inference, you are primarily employing
A. bottom-up processing. B. the word superiority effect. C. convergent thinking. D. top-down processing.