A condition in which people refrain from engaging in a desirable activity, even though only mild punishment is threatened, is called
a. self-monitoring.
b. negative attitude change.
c. insufficient justification.
d. insufficient deterrence.
d
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Psychologists have noticed that agoraphobia is often associated with:
a. bad childhood experiences with spiders b. having previously experienced a panic attack in public c. early childhood sexual abuse d. unusually "cold" parents
A group of college students is participating in a memory study that involves performing the same task each day under different circumstances; however, as each day goes by, the students are obviously getting more comfortable with completing the task. Which threat to internal validity has confounded this study
a. rehearsal b. preparation c. routine d. practice
Which of the following statements is true about research on memory impairments in infants of diabetic mothers?
a. Prenatal iron depletion interferes with the cerebral cortex, causing long-term learning and academic problems in children of diabetic mothers. b. Damage to the hippocampus is not linked to long-term learning and academic problems in children of diabetic mothers. c. Diabetes-linked prenatal brain damage is linked to short-term memory impairments that can often be reversed with medication. d. As a result of iron depletion in critical brain areas, a diabetic pregnancy places the fetus at risk for lasting memory deficits
Jennifer says that she is good at solving problems which require her to navigate and visualize objects from different angles. Jennifer has a high level of:
A. verbal intelligence. B. emotional intelligence. C. spatial intelligence. D. quantitative intelligence.