If I continue to draw observations from a population and recalculate the mean each time I add an observation, the mean will approach _______ as the sample size increases
a. its expected value
b. the true population mean
c. the median of the population if the population is symmetric
d. all of the above
D
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Which of the following has been a common element found in all forms of psychotherapy through the centuries?
a. Psychopharmacological intervention b. Talk therapy c. Trepanation d. Some form of ritual
Observational learning theory's foremost proponent is ______
a) John B. Watson b) Edward Thorndike c) B.F. Skinner d) Albert Bandura
You read about a program designed to help patients in a psychiatric hospital take better care of themselves and their environment and engage in more positive social interactions. After engaging in specified behaviors,
the patients are given plastic chips that can be exchanged later for rewards and privileges. Such systems are technically known as a. self-reinforcement systems. not from one's self. b. token economies. c. verbal reinforcements. d. reinforcement exchanges.
In the original work by Maier and Seligman, dogs that displayed the learned helplessness effect received ______ before being trained in an avoidance task.
A. tone–food pairings B. passive avoidance conditioning C. tone–shock pairings D. inescapable shock