Cathy witnesses a carjacking. A few days later, she is called to the police station to identify the culprit from a lineup. Cathy is most likely to be accurate if
a. the police tell her that the culprit is in the lineup.
b. one of the men in the lineup resembles the description that Cathy had given the police, while the other men inthe lineup look very different from that description
c. she is first presented with some mug shots and then views a lineup containing one of the men whose mug shotshe has seen.
d. she observes the suspect and foils one at a time rather than together in a single lineup.
d
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Although Jake is entering school, he sounds as if he is uttering "baby talk.". He has no problems understanding words or sentences. However, he has difficulty articulating sounds such as b, m, and t. This type of communication disorder is called
a. expressive language disorder. b. mixed receptive/expressive language disorder. c. phonological disorder. d. stuttering.
Behaviorists argue that many of our seemingly irrational fears are the result of
A. inadequate construct systems. B. conditioning. C. innate reflexes. D. unconscious forces.
If a parent rejects a child when they misbehave, but gives approval when they behave, what are they demonstrating?
a. unconditional positive regard c. no regard b. positive regard d. conditional positive regard
While scanning the shelves in a library, you notice a book written in the 1920s. If you opened it up to look for the chapter on motivation, you would be most likely to find that psychologists
a. had not yet discovered the concept of motivation. b. believed that most animal behavior is instinctually motivated, but that human behavior is not. c. had compiled a list of 10,000 human instincts. d. were focusing on the role of expectations in motivating behavior.