In order to convince a freshman that academic problems can be overcome, an instructor must get the freshman to:
A. attribute problems to temporary factors
B. attribute problems to innate abilities
C. believe that a considerable amount of college success is attributable to good fortune
D. let the instructor assume responsibility for the student's success for a while
Answer: A
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Research indicates that there are a number of ways to increase helping. Which of the following is NOT one of these?
a. Telling people to "go with their gut" when deciding whether or not to help b. Educating people about some of the obstacles to helping c. Providing people with live models of helpful behavior d. Providing people with filmed models of helpful behavior
You watch a documentary on TV showing children with dyslexia singing a rhyming song with a teacher. Based on Module 14, what is the most likely outcome of this approach?
A. it reduces activity in the left occipito-temporal areas in the brain B. it helps children to understand parentese C. it helps children develop associations between telegraphic speech and babbling D. it helps children develop associations between sounds and words
Answer the following statements true (T) or false (F)
1. Humans are better at judging frequencies than they are at judging probabilities. 2. The availability bias happens when items that are more easily recalled from memory are judged as being more lik 3. A heuristic is a well-defined sequence of steps that guarantees a solution to a problem. 4. Algorithms are mental shortcuts that sometimes lead to incorrect decisions. 5. The availability bias is an example of a heuristic.
Professor Montando is carrying out a memory experiment where he assigns undergraduate research participants to one of four different study conditions:
one condition where they receive 1 minute to study a word list, one with 2 minutes of study time, one with 4 minutes, and one with 10 minutes. He writes these conditions on four separate slips of paper, puts them in a hat and, as subjects arrive for the study, he picks out a slip of paper and assigns each subject to one of the four conditions until all four slips of paper have been selected. At this point, he puts all four slips back into the hat and repeats this procedure until all subjects have been assigned. This procedure is referred to as a. block random assignment. b. random selection. c. simple random assignment. d. stratified random assignment.