Cindy watches her big sister, Marsha, get ready for a big date by applying a lot of eye makeup. Cindy decides that the eye makeup would look good on her but decides to wait a while to get ready. When Marsha and Cindy come downstairs, their mother Carol screams at Marsha and tells her to go back upstairs and remove the eye makeup. Later, when Cindy is getting ready to go out, she looks at the
makeup on her dresser and decides against putting it on. What concept best explains Cindy's decision?
a. Classical conditioning
b. Defense mechanisms
c. Vicarious reinforcement
d. Regression
c
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a. It will intensify his negative emotional experience. b. Because he is already in a bad mood, it will have no impact on his emotional experience. c. It will create a competing positive emotion. d. It will reduce the intensity of his negative emotional experience.
The colloquia is
a. the first part of a research report or a dissertation. b. the internship that senior psychology majors must participate in to graduate. c. a specialized division of the American Psychological Association involving student members. d. a departmental activity that involves talks by guest speakers, often from other universities.
A ______ is a value that represents the distance of a score from the population mean in terms of how many standard deviations the distance represents in that distribution.
A. p value B. á level C. z score D. t score
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Indicate whether this statement is true or false.