To assess analogical reasoning in infants, Chen and colleagues used this task:

a. tasting similarities in foods that look alike.
b. judging similarities of simple word meanings.
c. using similar movements to retrieve toys.
d. smiling in response to similar musical melodies.


C

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a. is justified if the research design requires the harmful or painful procedures. b. is justified for lower animals but not for primates. c. cannot be justified unless the potential benefits of the research are substantial. d. is never justified.

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The Gestalt law of closure states that visual elements:

a. that have gaps will be perceived as complete objects b. that are close to each other will be perceived as a single group c. that share common features or properties will be perceived as a single group d. that are moving in the same direction will be perceived as a single group

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Gordon Allport believed that there are three types of personality traits: ____

a. ?source, primary, and secondary b. ?surface, internal, and tertiary c. ?central, secondary, and cardinal d. ?self, external, and social

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Suppose you drew a random sample from a population where the mean is 100 . The standard error of the sampling distribution is 10 . The mean for your sample is 80 . What could you conclude about your sample?

a. The sample mean does not occur very often by chance in the sampling distribution of means and probably did not come from the given population. b. The sample mean occurs very often by chance in the sampling distribution of means and probably did not come from the given population. c. The sample mean does not occur very often by chance in the sampling distribution of means but probably did come from the given population. d. The sample mean occurs very often by chance in the sampling distribution of means and probably did come from the given population.

Psychology