The failure of hospital staff to detect the fake patients in David Rosenhan's studies can be attributed to the
a. acting ability of the pseudo-patients.
b. generally low quality of training of hospital staff members.
c. effects of labeling and context.
d. fact that pseudo-patients were so heavily drugged.
C
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When experiments are used to determine whether therapy is effective, the therapy can be deemed effective only if the
a. control group shows improvement, but the experimental group shows none. b. waiting-list group shows dramatic improvement over the experimental and control groups. c. experimental group shows more improvement than the control group. d. experimental and waiting-list groups show improvement and the control group shows no improvement.
In the 1920s, Walter Cannon outlined the first scientific description of the way animals and humans respond to danger. He called this dual stress response the
a. general adaptation syndrome. b. fight-or-flight response. c. tend-and-befriend response. d. posttraumatic stress disorder.
Which of the following is TRUE of infants' auditory perception?
a. Infants hear sounds best that have pitches in the range of human speech. b. Infants can hear high-pitched sounds the best. c. Infants cannot use sound to locate an object. d. Infants cannot discriminate vowel and consonant sounds.
Thinking involves all of the following EXCEPT
a. pattern recognition. b. intuition. c. attention and memory d. engramatic notation.