Suppose that you are walking on your college campus, and a stranger asks you how to get to the library. Before answering, you need to figure out whether this person is familiar with any of the landmarks on the campus
Your concern about background information is most relevant for the aspect of language known as
a. phonemes
b. semantics.
c. syntax.
d. pragmatics.
Ans: d
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Maslow's work has had an impact on the field of ________
a) music b) management c) sports d) pizza delivery
Psychologists who take an evolutionary view argue that natural selection favors behaviors that maximize an individual's
a. self-actualization. b. acquisition of territory. c. reproductive success. d. material wealth.
Being in a neutral or negative mood decreases the likelihood of making what type of cognitive mistake?
A. fundamental attribution error B. actor-observer bias C. false consensus effect D. false uniqueness bias
One of the authors knew a little boy named Jerry. He was about 3 years old. Jerry
was a terror. He would throw stones at cars and people, knock over other children's bikes, etc. His mother would smile at him and tell him to be a good boy whenever he did these things, but when her irritation mounted she would explode and punish him for some trivial thing. One of the main problems she had was (a) insensitivity to the effects of regression to the mean (b) lack of consistency (c) she generalized her responses inappropriately (d) she did not take into account the possibility that spontaneous recovery would occur