Describe the current trends in college education: type of student, major, type of instruction, etc
Discuss whether or not you believe today's college students are getting the same opportunities for cognitive growth as were college students of 40 years ago.
What will be an ideal response?
Answers should include current demographics (e.g., more women, lower-income
students, ethnic minorities), differences in patterns of education (e.g., more part-time
students, more working students, more career-based curriculum, greater importance
placed on financial benefits of getting a degree), and the differences in structure (e.g., higher enrollment in community colleges; more female and minority
instructors). Students' opinions will vary, but may include that any collegiate
education heightens cognitive skills regardless of where one goes to school; but
factors like the form of instruction and the cultural life of the school probably affect
cognitive growth.
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a. no consistent tendency for observers to make stronger dispositional attributions than actors b. strong evidence for the actor-observer bias c. no such thing as social cognition, and psychology should return to its behaviorist roots d. no need to distinguish between drawing conclusions about self versus others
Which of the following tried to study ESP objectively with many of his experiments making use of the Zener cards?
a. J. B. Rhine b. Uri Geller c. Charles Bonnet d. Eric Berne
Imagine you were a clinician with a need to use a comprehensive, clinically oriented self-report test. Explain why you would need such a test and discuss two comprehensive, clinically oriented self-report tests you might consider using.
What will be an ideal response?
The activation-synthesis theory of dreaming includes all of the following EXCEPT
a. the cortical conversion of latent to manifest content. b. creation of subjective interpretation. c. consolidation of memories. d. communication of subjective interpretations. e. activation of the pons.