A(n) ____ is a strong belief about future behavior that can affect the behavior so that the belief appears to have predicted it.
A. self-fulfilling prophecy
B. confounded experience
C. introspection
D. testimonial
Answer: A
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a. ?storage b. ?retrieval c. ?encoding d. ?processing
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a child's sense of belonging to the family unit a child's sense of shame a child's feelings of guilt and gratitude to the parents a child's sense of fear toward the parents
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b. Obtain approval for your project from the human participants institutional review board at the university you are attending. c. Recruit students from a local school to be subjects. d. Find a place for all the children to watch television together on a Saturday morning.
Fred is afraid of spiders. He won't even watch a nature show on TV about them. When he sees a picture of a spider, he has a panic attack, but when he avoids looking at the image, his panic goes away. Fred's avoidance of spiders is being
a. extinguished, because he feels anxious after doing so. b. recovered spontaneously, because he will never get better. c. positively reinforced, because he is rewarded by his anxiety going down. d. negatively reinforced, because he is rewarded by his anxiety going down. e. positively reinforced, because he will lose his fear of spiders in the long run.