The Yerkes-Dodson law states ______
a. that intrinsic motivation is more powerful than intrinsic motivation b. extrinsic motivation is more powerful than intrinsic motivation
c. organisms seek to reduce arousal and maintain homeostasis
d. there is an optimal level of arousal for best performance of any task
D
You might also like to view...
Which of the following situations illustrates the concept of negative attention and its potential consequences?
a. When a child misbehaves, he is sent out of the class for a specified period of time known as a time-out. b. The parents of a two-year-old pay no attention to the child until she is quiet for least two minutes. c. The second-grade teacher says the entire class must be quiet before the students can leave for recess. Any sounds from the class delay or reduce recess time, so the class remains quiet on cue from the teacher. d. The parents of an 8-year-old boy tend to punish his misbehaviors in front of his siblings, who find his antics during the punishment hilarious.
Which of the following is NOT a group that standardized tests tend to disadvantage?
a. Women b. Students from low income households c. Younger students d. Ethnic minorities
A criminal psychologist is interested in studying the effect of a new furlough program on inmate morale. There are two prisons involved in the study. One prison will institute the furlough program and the other prison will not. The psychologist arranges with the superintendent of both prisons to measure inmate morale before the furlough program begins and six months after the program has started
What type of quasi experimental design is illustrated in this example? a. nonequivalent control group b. regression discontinuity c. interrupted time series d. repeated treatment
If a Tukey's HSD = 3.46, it means that _____
a. either 3 or 4 of the means being compared are different b. three of the 4 means being compared are significantly different c. means that differ by less than 3.46 are significantly different d. means that differ by 3.46 or more are significantly different