When 60-year-old Madonna wore a miniskirt to a wedding, one of her friends commented, "I sure wish Madonna would act her age.". This comment best illustrates the concept of
a. age norms.
b. age grade.
c. cohort effects.
d. maturation.
a
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In Tolman's system, the repetition of an act leads to ____.?
a. ?no change in the habit strength b. ?sign Gestalts c. ?knowledge of environment cues d. ?cognitive awareness of the environment cues e. ?the combination of movements into acts
Kevin is shown a list of words and asked to remember them for a subsequent learning trial. He is later shown a series of target words (words that were on the previous list) along with distracter words (words that were not on the previous list). In the initial list, Kevin was shown the following words: dog, cat, alligator and mouse. Kevin was then shown the following list of words: dog, cat, rat
and umbrella. If Kevin says that rat was on the original list of words to remember, what psychological phenomenon has he just demonstrated? A. retrograde amnesia B. false recall C. false recognition D. iconic error E. agnosia
Brazelton's Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale (NBAS) is applied to assess the newborn infant's
a. basic bodily functions such as digestion or excretion. b. vital life signs that are needed for survival. c. reflexes and psychological responses. d. social attachment to the mother.
If you think you won a tennis match because you practiced a lot, you are making an attribution based on a(n) ________ cause, but if you think you won because you got lucky, your attribution is based on a(n) ________ cause
a) unconscious, conscious b) conscious; unconscious c) external; internal d) internal; external