Which of the following ethnic groups has the most statistical justification for concern about dying from accidental injury?
A) ?European Americans
B) ?Hispanic Americans
C) ?African Americans
D) ?Asian Americans
B
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Application of conditioning principles to change behavior problems is generally known as
a. behavior modification. b. cognitive engineering. c. modeling. d. insight training.
Which of the following is NOT true of aversion therapy?
a. It has been successful with drug and alcohol abuse, gambling, stuttering, and overeating. b. It is not widely used. c. It is usually used as one element of a larger treatment program. d. It is based on operant conditioning.
Multielement designs are best suited when the changes in behavior are:
a. relatively enduring. b. short-lived. c. due to biological factors. d. highly variable.
When psychologists ask research participants to remember combinations of letters (such as TJD), why might they have participants engage in strange tasks such as counting backward by threes?
a. Counting backward prevents rehearsal, so researchers can see how long an unrehearsed memory trace will last. b. Researchers try to make the participants forget. c. Counting backward can facilitate episodic binding. d. Researchers are actually interested in backward-counting ability.