Justin is working on his psychology paper for class when he gets a phone call inviting him to a party. His decision to finish the paper before going to the party reflects the functioning of the
A) conscious.
B) superego.
C) id.
D) ego.
Answer: D
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b. Subliminal message recordings help people quit a bad habit. c. People feel an urge to buy a product after seeing a subliminal advertisement. d. People slightly imitate facial expressions that they saw subliminally.
Raenna was grounded for two weeks because she arrived home after her curfew one night. Raenna now comes home before her curfew due to
A) classical conditioning. B) operant conditioning. C) observational learning. D) social learning.
. Jim is conducting his first study, examining gender differences in smiling. (He predicts that women will smile more than men while judging three cartoons.) Jim serves as the experimenter, showing participants the three cartoons and recording their facial expressions. However, Jim inadvertently smiles more himself when he reads the instructions to the female subjects than when he reads them to the male subjects. His own smiling can potentially influence his results, but it is not a variable he wishes to study. His own smiling has threatened his study’s _______.
a. internal validity b. external validity c. levels of measurement d. response bias
Dr. Turner has been treating a child with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. He decides to write a prescription for Ritalin. Given this information, it is most likely that Dr. Turner is a __________.
A. psychiatrist B. psychoanalyst C. humanistic psychologist D. school psychologist