Which of the following is the best example of spreading activation at work?
A. Your sensory registers allow you to perceive smooth motion when you move your head.
B. You find it difficult to remember happy things when you are in a bad mood.
C. You find it easy to relearn vocabulary words that you had once learned but forgot.
D. You start thinking about cars, and that leads you to think about trucks and sport-utility vehicles.
Answer: D
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a. many women of color are suspicious about discussing personal problems with therapists, especially European American therapists. b. in the current era, most Latinas can easily find a therapist in their community who speaks Spanish. c. women of color are more likely than European American women to recognize when psychotherapy is necessary. d. Black women are so strong that they are unlikely to require psychological counseling.
The discussion of hand washing in the textbook illustrates what important point about surveys?
A. The results may be accurate if you carefully define the words used in the survey. B. Self-fulfilling prophecy introduces errors into survey results. C. Surveys show cause and effect. D. Sometimes people do not answer truthfully.
The behaviorist premise that all behavior is learned was challenged by ____.?
a. ?the Brelands' work on instinctual drift b. ?Harlow's work with monkey-mothers c. ?Seligman's work on biological preparedness d. ?All of the choices are correct. e. ?None of the choices are correct.
Craig finds it difficult to pass a store without shopping. He has been shopping so much that he misses work sometimes and is neglecting his family's finances. His behavior best satisfies which of the following criteria of abnormality?
a. Deviance c. Physical discomfort b. Personal distress d. Maladaptive behavior