________ research uses past records or data sets to investigate research questions or to look for patterns or relationships.
a. Archival
b. Correlational
c. Experimental
d. Survey
a. Archival
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Ernest has collected and examined his research data, and now has a set of general principles that he believes accounts for the acquisition of personality traits. Ernest has formed a(n) ____ of personality.?
a. ?theory b. ?operational definition c. ?experimental design d. ?opinion
If you use the __________ problem-solving strategy, then you are using a rule of thumb strategy, which saves time and energy when making a decision but may not always be the best method.
a. algorithm b. trial and error c. heuristic d. working backwards
Why do drive-reduction approaches fail to offer a complete account of human motivation?
Drive-reduction approaches are vague about what, or even how many, primary drives exist. People are sometimes motivated to increase rather than decrease their level of stimulation. Drive-reduction approaches offer much better explanations of behaviors motivated by secondary drives than of behaviors motivated by primary drives. Homeostasis does not accurately describe the mechanism by which primary drives operate.
Which of the following would be most characteristic of a 2 year old's telegraphic speech?
a. "a doggy" b. "eat apple" c. "to store" d. "ball pretty"