A researcher wants to know whether she can encourage adults to participate in a beneficial amount of aerobic exercise using operant conditioning. She establishes a minimum and a maximum amount of exercise for each participant for each week and the participants are rewarded for each week in which their exercise falls within the desired range. The minimum and maximum amounts are increased gradually
over time until the participants are engaged in the desired amount of exercise. This is an example of
a. classical conditioning.
b. an ABA design.
c. a range-bound changing criterion design.
d. a multiple-baseline design.
C
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According to research on ethnicity and attitudes toward menopause,
a. Latina women report the most negative attitudes. b. Black women have relatively positive attitudes. c. Black women are much more likely than women from other ethnic groups to be bothered by hot flashes. d. women in countries such as Greece, Mexico, and India regard menopause as a time of continual grief and depression.
Jed hypothesizes that better home life will result in higher mental health in children. He decides on what homes constitute "good" home life in his own way, but he cannot explain how he comes to these conclusions. Jed's hypothesis is
a. a good one, as it is both testable and refutable. b. an all right one, as it is refutable but not testable. c. an all right one, as it is testable but not refutable. d. a bad one, as it is neither testable nor refutable.
Once information is received at the dendrites, it next flows into the
a. soma. b. axon. c. myelin sheath. d. glial cell.
When neither the person taking the drug nor the person evaluating the effects of the drug knows which people are getting the experimental drug and which people are getting the placebo, this procedure is referred to as a(n)
A. design flaw. B. effect size. C. preclinical study. D. double-blind procedure.