Lisa taught her son to buckle his seat belt in the car by only allowing him to play one of his tapes on the car stereo after he was buckled up. Lisa taught him by applying the principles of
a. cognitive psychology.
b. biological psychology.
c. humanism.
d. behaviorism.
D
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____ is a distorted thinking category in which one makes absolutistic statements
a. All-or-nothing thinking c. "Should" statements b. Jumping to conclusions d. Magnification or minimization
__________ refers to focused energy and attention applied in order to reach a goal
a) Persistence b) Intensity c) Orientation d) Activation
Seven-year-old Marvin and his four-year-old brother are sitting at the table as their mother pours milk into their glasses. Both glasses are the same size and shape
However, Marvin's mother notices a scratch/nick on the lip of his glass and decides that it is safer if she pours that milk into another glass so Marvin doesn't cut his lip. The new glass is shorter and much wider, and when she pours the milk into in, Marvin's younger brother laughs and says that now he has more milk than Marvin. However, Marvin is not upset because he knows that he still gets the same amount of milk. Marvin is exhibiting __________. a) formal operations b) decentering c) preoperational d) abstract reversing
Which of the following is one of the three basic ways of describing the results of research investigations?
A. graphing relationships between variables B. making precise statements about data by correlating the scores of individuals on two variables C. comparing variable quantities D. comparing group percentages