What is the scope of the biological perspective?
a. It deals with the ways in which children encode information.
b. It examines how children learn to act by observing models.
c. It views children as going through stages of psychosexual development.
d. It refers to heredity, maturation of the nervous system, and the effects of hormones.
D
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Maturation is
a. the age at which a baby can survive in the event of a premature birth. b. the sequence of age-related changes that occur as a person progresses from conception to death. c. development that reflects experience and learning. d. development that reflects the gradual unfolding of one's genetic blueprint.
In the Thom et al. (2000) study of the treatment of dental-phobic patients, if participants in the two experimental groups showed reduced anxiety from pretest to posttest, could the researchers conclude that the treatments were effective in reducing anxiety? a. Yes. Reduction in anxiety for the experimental groups would prove the effectiveness of the treatment
b. No. There are many possible reasons why patients would show reduced anxiety, so the only way to know if the cause was the treatments would be to use a control group that did not get a treatment. c. Yes, but only if one of the groups had a greater reduction in anxiety than the other. d. No. To conclude that the treatments were effective, they would need to see if the effects last for many years afterwards.
In __________, the combined effects of multiple drugs is greater than the sum of the parts
a. summation b. potentiation c. exponentiation d. antagonism
The two-factor theory of intelligence predicts a _____ correlation between solving algebra problems and identifying musical notes.
A) perfect positive B) positive C) perfect negative D) negative