Production at the factory was poor, so management had a team of observers film the workers on the job. The films showed everyone working at top speed, and production was the highest in a year. A likely explanation for the change in the workers' behavior is:
a. external validity
b. the placebo effect
c. reactivity
d. random assignment
C
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Which of the following is a criticism of Skinner's model of language acquisition?
a. Its concepts are extremely vague. b. Children don't seem to learn transformational rules as Skinner said they should. c. It is unreasonable to expect children to learn an infinite number of sentences by imitation. d. Children don't respond to positive reinforcement until they are in preschool, after language is already established.
During the fifth week of prenatal development, if there is testosterone, the developing child will be ____, but if there is a lack of it the child will be ____.
A. male; female B. female; male C. red-green colorblind; blue-green colorblind D. heterosexual; homosexual
A book collector has just purchased a book by Freud about dreams. A likely topic of the book is:
a. the activation-synthesis hypothesis b. how dreams gratify unconscious wishes and desires c. how dreams consolidate memories d. the parasomnia theory
When the two different images, one from each eye, are fused into one overall image, three-dimensional sight occurs, which is referred to as __________ vision
Fill in the blank(s) with correct word