Researchers studying human memory presented people with two lists of words. One list included the names of objects; the other list contained abstract nouns. The researchers found that people could remember more words from the list with object names. In this study, the number of words recalled by each participant would be:
a. a placebo
b. the dependent variable
c. a confounding variable
d. the independent variable
B
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A. Tourette's disorder B. Autism spectrum disorder C. Schizophrenia D. Bipolar disorder
Steven and Joe are very bad roommates. Steven is incredibly disorganized and messy while Joe is compulsive in his work and insists that the room be completely tidy at all times. According to Freud, it is possible that both Steven and Joe are fixated at the ____ stage.
A. oral B. phallic C. anal D. latency
Suppose a child was raised by abusive parents that kept her locked in a basement, completely separated from human contact, for the first 7 years of her life
. When she was finally rescued, case workers find that it is very difficult to teach her how to communicate. This would be because the child was not exposed to language during the _____________. A) sensitive period B) sensorimotor stage C) preconventional stage D) concrete operational stage
According to research by Costa and McCrae, individuals ________ were more likely to respond to disequilibrium by increases in substance abuse, illness, depression, or regressive patterns of defense
a. low in conscientiousness b. high in neuroticism c. from low socioeconomic status backgrounds d. high in openness to experience