Using a PET scan, Volkow showed that the effects of methylphenidate on the brain and on reports of being “high” were greater if ___________
A. participants were not expecting the drug.
B. participants were expecting the drug.
C. participants did not administer the drug to themselves.
D. participants were experience in pain.
E. participants were in a familiar environment.
Answer: B. participants were expecting the drug.
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a. operant conditioning. b. observational learning. c. delayed reinforcement. d. classical conditioning.
The belief that we learn to be aggressive by observing aggression in others is held by
a. the humanistic learning theorists. b. the dissonance conditioning theorists. c. the social learning theorists. d. no serious theorists.
According to Ginzburg, the ________ period is the period in which people explore specific career options, either though actual experience on the job or though training for a profession
A) fantasy B) realistic C) agentic D) tentative
According to Piaget, the most fundamental deficiency of preoperational thinking is
A) egocentrism. B) conservation. C) animistic thinking. D) dual representation.