Before a concert, the director has the leaders from each section of the band play a tuning note. There is a noticeable difference in the quality of sound emitted by the different instruments. The psychological dimension of sound that accounts for this difference is known as
A. amplitude.
B. frequency.
C. timbre.
D. loudness.
Answer: C
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a. are voluntary. b. are rare and unusual. c. can cause harm. d. deviate from society's standards of proper behavior.
Psychodynamic theorists used to believe that that an adult severely neglected as a child may
a. relate to others with difficulty. b. seek attention through constant physical complaints. c. channel distress into desiring medically unexplained sensorimotor symptoms. d. a psychodynamic theorist would view all of these as possibilities if an adult were a severely neglected child.
Within Walter Mischel’s CAPS theory, the interpretations we give to information we get from the world are called _______.
a. affects b. beliefs c. encodings d. values
In operant conditioning, shaping involves:
a. positively reinforcing desired responses and negatively reinforcing undesired responses b. demonstrating a response and then reinforcing the behavior when it occurs c. reinforcing successive approximations to the desired behavior d. switching to classical conditioning once a behavior is established