Searching for a red circle in a field of green squares is likely to yield __________
a. a steep search function
b. a shallow search function
c. evidence favoring the existence of serial exhaustive search
d. evidence for the operation of a supervisory attentional system
Answer: b
You might also like to view...
_____ is known for the ideas of self-efficacy, observational learning, and vicarious reinforcement
a. Cattell c. Seligman b. Bandura d. Zuckerman
In what area(s) is there currently a lack of sexuality research?
a. Development of sexual identity b. Childhood sexual development c. What makes couples happy long term d. All of these
A president is managing a war that is not going well. Nevertheless, he refuses to withdraw troops, arguing that doing so would waste the billions of dollars spent and thousands of lives lost fighting the war. The president's line of reasoning illustrates:
A) base-rate ignorance. B) the sunk-cost fallacy. C) the conjunction fallacy. D) the principle of diminishing returns.
Professor Cole is discussing aggression as a dependent variable in his experiment. He says that aggression is the amount of time that a child holds a toy weapon. This best illustrates a(n):
a. operational definition of playing with a toy weapon. b. confounding variable. c. operational definition of aggression. d. nominal level of measurement.