To learn to look both ways before crossing the street, children merely need to hear about the consequences of getting hit by a car (instead of having to experience it themselves). This is an example of
A. shaping.
B. insight.
C. vicarious conditioning.
D. escape learning.
Answer: C
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a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false
You and a friend are seated in the large auditorium psychology class. There are two students seated right behind you talking about what they did last weekend. You have trouble concentrating on what the teacher is saying, but you picked up on a lot of campus gossip from the conversation going on behind you. At the end of class, you relate to your friend the latest gossip heard during class, but
she does not remember hearing any gossip and is really worried about how she will complete the new assignment that the teacher discussed today. You think, "What new assignment?" This explains the difference in your and your friend's a. short-term memory. b. redintegrative memory. c. selective attention. d. procedural memory.
When the Social Readjustment Rating Scale was updated in the 1990s, the researchers found that
a. participants felt they had better control over their stress responses. b. the life-change unit estimates had decreased by 45 percent. c. men in the 1990s reported experiencing more stress in their lives than women did. d. people reported experiencing higher levels of stress than the original 1960s sample.
The ______ and ______ are good measures of central tendency for ordinal data.
A. mean; median B. mean; mode C. median; mode D. mean; outlier