Which of the following is an example of applied research in psychology?
a. Participants are asked whether or not they know the answers to a series of questions; the results show that they respond more quickly when the answer is ‘no' than when the answer is ‘yes.'
b. Two testing methods are compared to see which one is better at selecting applicants who will be successful in a job training program.
c. A researcher finds that people can recall more words from a list when they are asked to create an image to go with each word.
d. A researcher finds that people react more quickly to a signal that is expected than to one that is unexpected.
B
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a. reliance on empirical evidence. b. multifactorial causation of behavior. c. subjectivity of perception. d. unconscious motivation.
Which term refers to biological or physiological influences on our thoughts and behaviors?
A. nurture B. nature C. interaction D. cognition
One day when baby Mark was crawling around, he fell down the stairs. After the doctor examined him, Mark's parents learned that he had damaged the parietal lobe of the brain. Mark's parents were told to expect that he would have difficulty with
A. registering spatial locations. B. initiating movement. C. processing auditory information. D. vision.