Triplett (1898) found that children would reel faster when
a. they were timed.
b. next to another reeling child.
c. an experimenter was in the room.
d. in a large group of observers.
e. a cockroach was placed next to them.
b. next to another reeling child.
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A hypothesis provides a means of ____ a theory
a. testing b. creating c. proving d. generalizing
According to the research on implicit memory and explicit memory,
a. people with amnesia typically perform better on explicit memory tasks than on implicit memory tasks. b. when the tests are conducted properly, most people with normal memory reveal very little implicit memory. c. on implicit memory tasks, people recall much more when they have used deep levels of processing, rather than shallow levels. d. psychologists sometimes discover a dissociation; for example, a variable may have a large effect on an explicit task, but a small effect on an implicit task.
Regarding children's language development, Noam Chomsky noted that children generate many sentences they have never heard before. From this, he concluded that language development is driven largely by
A. an inborn biological program. B. cultural influences. C. classical conditioning. D. operant conditioning.
One scale that assesses the degree of identification with stereotypically masculine and feminine traits is the:
A) Gender Self-Report. B) Social Role Inventory. C) Eysenck Personality Inventory of Gender. D) BEM Sex Role Inventory.