Sometimes researchers use _____ rather than individuals as the unit of sampling to obtain a random sample from a population. This technique is especially useful if the population contains some very mobile individuals
a. residential unit c. last known address
b. birth address d. eighth grade address
A
Using the residential unit ensures that the sample will represent a given community even though the residents may change from time to time.
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In a hospital corridor, you overhear physicians discussing a patient's soft signs. You ask your own physician what they meant and find that they were referring to
a. neurological symptoms, such as delays in fine motor coordination. b. symptoms that only appear in evidence from low-tech types of testing equipment. c. indications that suggest a low level of a certain neurotransmitter is present. d. an area of the brain that experienced a direct blow that causes seizure-like symptoms.
In Roberti's 2004 study, high scores on the SSS were positively correlated with the openness to experience and the agreeableness dimensions of the five-factor model of personality
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
Answer the following statements true (T) or false (F)
1. When asked to remember their grades in high school, college students' memories for bad grades tend to be more accurate than memories of good grades 2. Emotional events tend to be better remembered than nonemotional events 3. Flashbulb memories are more vivid but are forgotten more easily than are ordinary memories 4. The amygdala plays an important role in the formation of flashbulb memories 5. Taken together, the seven sins of memory expose human memory as a highly inefficient system
When a stimulus similar to the conditioned stimulus also elicits the conditioned response, the phenomenon is called _______
a) stimulus discrimination b) stimulus generalization c) spontaneous recovery d) second order conditioning