Nagging someone to do something until he or she does it is an example of __________.
A. negative reinforcement
B. aversive conditioning
C. punishment
D. positive reinforcement
Answer: A
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a. They require huge amounts of time. b. They risk gathering data that is not 100% reliable. c. They would risk experiencing panel attrition. d. They require a large sample size. e. They have the ability to show the patterns of a variable over time.
In order to estimate the average (mean) weight of all professional football players, an investigator determines the weight of the "Dallas Cowboy" players. The weight of each Dallas Cowboy is(are) called ___________
a. constants c. parameters b. data d. statistics
Lily is a 71 year-old woman who recently suffered a minor stroke with no permanent physical or cognitive impairments. Within a week after the stroke, Lily who is normally an outgoing and energetic person, started to withdraw from family and friends and
lost interest in most of her hobbies. Her movements became extremely sluggish. Lily’s family finally insisted that she see her doctor when it became increasingly difficult for her to name objects/people and her speech became less fluent. Given this information, Lily may be suffering from __________. A) pseudodementia B) vascular depression C) vascular dementia D) multi-infarct dementia
Surprisingly little empirical research has been devoted to evaluating Freud's theories.
a. true b. false