You conduct a study on how people behave in social situations in a lab in the psychology
department of your school. Now you hope to generalize your results to how people behave
when at a local bar.
Which of the following is a concern with this plan?
A) population generalization B) laboratory generalization
C) environmental generalization D) temporal generalization
C
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Behavior is best described as
a. anything a person does. b. only those things a person does that everyone can see. c. only those things which can be recorded by a camera. d. those things that a person intentionally does, excluding all behaviors that occur accidentally.
A negative internal working model of the self and a positive working model of others are likely to promote a(n) ____ attachment
a. avoidant b. resistant c. disorganized/disoriented d. secure
One study had participants view tapes of dental surgery after studying a word list. This study concluded that:
a. emotional videos have no effect on memory. b. emotional videos can enhance memory, but only for material related to the video itself. c. emotional videos can enhance memory even for unrelated material. d. emotional videos can enhance memory for related material, while reducing memory for unrelated material.
Gina, age 10, is participating in a study in which she is asked to press a button whenever she sees a 4 or a 9 appear on a computer screen that flashes random numbers. This study is testing Gina's ______.
A. executive function B. selective attention C. working memory D. sensory memory