One day, a classmate with whom you've been trying to go out socially gives you her number on a napkin. (It was the only thing you had handy at the time.) Unfortunately, when you wash your jeans, you forget to take out the napkin, and now all you can piece together of the phone number are the first six digits. If you go to the phone and dial the first six digits plus "0", then dial the first six
digits plus "1", then dial the first six digits plus "2", etc. until you dial the correct number, you are solving the problem by
a. using heuristics.
b. rote.
c. trial and error.
d. insight.
C
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When Pavlov placed meat powder or other food in the mouths of canine subjects, they began to salivate. The salivation was a(n) __________.
A. unconditioned response B. unconditioned stimulus C. conditioned response D. conditioned stimulus
In terms of the traditional view of conditioning, research on conditioned taste aversion was surprising because
a. there was a long delay between CS and US. b. the dislike of a particular taste was operantly conditioned. c. conditioning occurred to all stimuli present when the food was consumed. d. the sense of taste seems to be relatively weak.
Which of the following would likely be a child's first lexicon?
a. a picture book b. recognition by the child of its own name c. the child's first spoken word d. the child's first gesture
What was Osborn's term for the group approach to problem solving that emphasizes nonevaluative creative thinking?
A. groupthink B. brainstorming C. groupthink D. wisdom of crowds