The _____ the damage to the spinal cord, the _____ the prognosis for sensation and movement throughout the body.
A) higher; better
B) lower; worse
C) lower; better
D) more complete; better
C) lower; better
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Describe how the APA ethical standards for research with animals involve both the use and the care of animals.
What will be an ideal response?
The "school of hard knocks" (learning important lessons via repeated failures) is only
likely to be successful if a. the school uses ratio schedules of reinforcement. b. the school uses interval schedules of reinforcement. c. successes sometimes occur between the failures. d. a few successes occur early. e. there are long stretches of failure and no successes.
A child is scolded for using his fingers instead of his fork to eat some spaghetti. The scolding stops when he picks up his fork. Stopping the scolding is an example of ______ reinforcement
a. positive c. tertiary b. negative d. secondary
Joe is suffering from a severe anxiety disorder. His psychiatrist prescribes a medication that has been found in many research studies to help reduce anxiety. Joe takes the medication, but his anxiety level does not improve at all. Since the anxiety medication did not work, Joe concludes that his psychiatrist must be wrong and he must be suffering from some other disorder. The problem with Joe's conclusion is that he is failing to consider the
a. patient uniformity myth. b. internal validity of the research studies. c. lack of clinical significance of many research findings. d. external validity of the prior research.