As a result of reading several research articles on the long-term effects of daycare, a state legislature passes a new law mandating that all daycare providers modify their practices to be in consistent with this research. This action reflects
a. how research can affect social policy
b. the benefits of doing meta-analytic research.
c. the importance of longitudinal studies.
d. why correlational research is superior in some ways to experimental research.
a
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A major contribution of Descartes to psychology was to deflect attention from the study of the mind in general to the study of consciousness in particular.?
a. True b. False
According to research on memory for interrelated sentences,
a. people recall hearing many sentences that were never actually presented. b. people's verbatim memory is generally close to perfect. c. people often believe that they have heard a sentence before, even if the meaning of that sentence is very different from the original. d. several minutes after the material has been presented, people usually cannot remember the general meaning of that material.
The ____ of the eye can adjust its shape and focus light on the back surface of the eye called the ____
a. cornea; lens c. lens; retina b. iris; fovea d. pupil; ocular membrane
Groups are important to us because they provide advantages like resource sharing in times of scarcity. What is this type of advantage?
A. evolutionary B. group cohesiveness C. social support D. sense of identity