When a student notices conspicuous examples of drunkenness around campus, which causes him/her to assume that everybody is drinking heavily, and therefore, begins to engage in binge drinking, it is known as
a) alcoholism.
b) false consensus effect.
c) competition drinking.
d) addiction.
b
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The fact that the correlation in weight between identical twins reared apart is higher than that between fraternal twins reared together suggests that weight is
a. influenced more by genetics than by environmental factors. b. influenced more by environmental factors than by genetics. c. affected equally by genetics and environmental factors. d. not affected by either genetics or environmental factor.
By about ____ months of age, different circuits in the brain begin to control infants' looking at faces, allowing infants to distinguish different faces
a. 2-3 b. 7-8 c. 11–12 d. 14–16
Semantic memories are for
a. specific events. b. general facts. c. early childhood experiences. d. how to perform an action.
A person will persist playing a broken slot machine longer than spending money in a broken vending machine due to the _____ effect.
A) continuous reinforcement B) intermittent reinforcement C) shaping by approximations D) interval reinforcement