When current knowledge about an individual and his or her environment can be used to accurately forecast behavior at another time or in another setting, which scientific goal has been achieved?
a. description
b. understanding
c. prediction
d. control
C
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A. Negative skew B. Leptokurtic kurtosis C. Platykurtic kurtosis D. Positive skew
Which of the following best explains why our mind uses mental representations to signify information?
A. To manage our immense body of knowledge B. To add complexity to our body of knowledge C. To distinguish between essential and non-essential knowledge D. To distinguish between older and newer knowledge
Jack, MacDonald, Reese, & Hayne (2009) investigated the relationship between interaction between mother and child during early childhood and memory for childhood events later in life. When mother's talk about eventswas _____, the child's earlie
a) repetitious rather than elaborative; from earlier in childhood b) elaborative rather than repetitious; from later in childhood c) about social relationships; about the child themselves d) about the child; about social relationships
Once you get over the initial stress associated with your first exam of finals week, the fact that you have several more exams will likely lead your body to enter the ________ stage of the general adaptation syndrome.
A. action/willpower B. resistance C. alarm D. exhaustion