The belief that behavior is a function of the interaction of the person and the situation is known as _____________.
a. situationism
b. behaviorism
c. nominalism
d. interactionism
Answer: d. interactionism
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A psychologist wants to obtain a measure of children's attention spans under quiet conditions. She arranges for a group of children to meet individually with a research assistant who reads each child a list of numbers and then asks the child to repeat the
this task. The psychologist finds that the scores that each child received at week one and at week two tend to be very similar. She concludes that this test has high a. validity. b. split-half reliability. c. interrater reliability. d. test-retest reliability.
An "infant state" is a(n)
a. isolated island that is governed by precocious infants. b. relatively unstable political system. c. level of arousal in a baby. d. innate personality style that differs among babies.
Children tend to show a preference to play alone or with parents rather than with one another
Indicate whether this statement is true or false.
Which of the following is not involved in a simple model of human information processing?
a. Motivation c. Sensory register b. Response d. Attention