In attempting to study the stress levels of chefs at work, Professor Moriarty designs a laboratory setting that very much resembles a typical restaurant kitchen
He recruits a number of area chefs and has them prepare a number of challenging dishes within a short amount of time while their blood pressure levels were being monitored. This type of simulation study would be emphasizing
a. experimental realism.
b. mundane realism.
c. unethical behavior.
d. cross-species comparisons.
b
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Sarah Lee is helping her dad, Jefferson, bake cookies. First, Sarah divides the dough into two equal round piles. Then, as she goes to roll her dough, she trips, flattens her pile, and begins to cry. Her dad asks her if she's hurt, whereupon Sarah tells her dad that she isn't hurt but she's sad because now he has a tall pile with more dough than her. Sarah Lee's response demonstrates
a. centration. b. conservation. c. relativistic thinking. d. seriation.
A reductionist theory
a. takes into account both the parts of behavior as well as the whole. b. attempts to understand behavior as a whole. c. focuses on mediating variables. d. tries to explain behavior in terms of its smallest components.
In comparison to ionotropic receptors, metabotropic receptors:
a. have effects that occur quicker. b. have effects that occur slower. c. have effects that last for a limited duration. d. act directly on ion channels.
A graph of a distribution showing the frequency of each response in the distribution is called a ______.
a. frequency distribution b. line graph c. scatterplot d. bar graph