What is the advantage of a simulation compared to a traditional laboratory study?
a. increased internal validity
b. increased external validity
c. increased reliability
d. elimination of history effects
b
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When Jana is riding in the car with her parents, she occasionally points at passing vehicles and calls out "see cars," even though some of the vehicles are buses and trucks. What is Jana's speech an example of?
A. overextension B. rehearsal C. phonemic fluency D. self-awareness
Keisha unhappily replayed the event in her mind in which the customer in front of her won a million dollars with her scratch-off ticket. Her unhappiness is associated with what sort of mental error?
A. multitasking B. maximizing C. satisficing D. magical thinking
A person who feels helpless is most likely to view a stressor as:
A. a threat. B. a challenge. C. a problem. D. a frustration.
In laboratory studies, when people of different ages were presented with various scenarios describing various stressful situations, older adults used __________ and younger adults used __________ to deal with the stressors
A) only emotion-focused coping; only problem-focused coping B) both emotion-focused coping and problem-focused coping; only problem-focused coping C) only problem-focused coping; only emotion-focused coping D) only problem-focused coping; both emotion-focused coping and emotion-focused coping