The members of a jury are split 50/50 on a conviction decision. After much discussion, one member decides to change their vote and suddenly several others follow. What is this indicative of?
a. the first-shift rule c. winner takes all
b. the truth-wins scheme d. none of these
A
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Which of the following is the best example of operant conditioning?
a. You notice that many of your classmates are comfortable speaking with professors after class. Even though you are usually shy, you therefore decide that you will try to speak with professors after class too. b. Every time you wear the poncho you purchased in Mexico, you think fondly about the time that you spent there. c. You ask for an extension on a paper that is due for class, your teacher says yes, and you still end up with a really good grade. This leads you to ask other teachers for extensions as well. d. After going to the same dentist for many years, you develop a fondness for your dentist and for the other people who work in her office.
Capacity for change is one of the key ingredients for successful self-regulation, and is essentially the same thing as ____
a. potential b. willpower c. intent d. opportunity
A baby who has learned that dropping a spoon from her high chair at the table makes a loud noise when it hits the floor demonstrates Aristotle’s ______ property.
a. similarity b. causal c. contiguity d. empiricist
Wanda was the hardest working student in her school. Her constant efforts were rewarded at graduation when she received an award as the university's best math student. She confessed at that time that in elementary school she had failed math and was told by her teacher that she should pick an occupation that did not require her to work with numbers. What might Alfred Adler have said about Wanda?
A. Wanda is the exception to the rule, in that she should have instead displayed an inferiority complex. B. She most likely is a first born child. C. Her striving for achievement resulted from her earlier feelings of inferiority. D. She achieved because she never saw herself as inferior, regardless of what happened to her in elementary school.