Who is credited with founding child development as an academic discipline and used questionnaires to study the "contents of children's minds?"

a. John Watson
b. G. Stanley Hall
c. Jean Piaget
d. John Locke


b

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Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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Among individuals with social anxiety disorder, the ______ is underactive while the ______ is overactive.

a. thalamus; basal ganglia b. caudate nucleus; putamen c. prefrontal cortex; amygdala d. amygdala; prefrontal cortex

Psychology

Provide a brief description of the four major perspectives in social psychology. Put them in order from the most proximate levels of explanation to the ultimate levels of explanation for social behavior

What will be an ideal response?

Psychology

Students in Group A spent Friday and Saturday nights studying for a test. Students in Group B spent those nights partying. Students in Group C spent those nights resting. You expect those who study on the weekends to do better on their exam than those who rest or party. What is the appropriate statistical test to run to determine whether weekend evening activity affects test scores?

a. Correlation b. Independent-samples t-test c. One-way between-groups ANOVA d. Multiple linear regression

Psychology