Ebony and Austin are looking at an abstract painting in a museum. Ebony describes objects and people she thinks she sees in the painting. Austin says, "It's a bunch of paint thrown on a canvas." Ebony responds, "No, there is so much here that you just don't see." During lunch, they agree that their experience reminds them of what concept they learned in introductory psychology?
A. social cognition
B. trait theory
C. projective testing
D. the Big Five
Answer: C
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a. are environmental forces. b. make a behavior possible. c. do not require communication. d. originate within the person.
When the temperature of something we touch is colder than our skin:
a. warm fibers begin to fire and we register the sensation of warm b. both warm and cool fibers begin to fire and we register the sensation of pain c. cool fibers begin to fire and we register the sensation of cool d. neither warm nor cool fibers begin to fire and we register only pressure
How do all of the laboratory studies on evolutionary psychology discussed in the textbook help us generalize to situations outside of the lab?
A) Men were trained to pick up on ovulatory signals from women in the lab and used the knowledge in the real world. B) They showed that humans do not respond to ovulatory cues. C) They showed that men respond to ovulatory cues but women cannot pick up on them. D) They all brought something that occurs in the real world into the lab.
Which of the following statements is true of the discipline?
a. Child development is the scientific study of the patterns of growth, change, and stability that occur from conception through adolescence. b. Child development is a specialized branch of psychology; therefore only psychologists are trained and can conduct research in this area. c. Child development spans the period of prenatal development through old age. d. Child development focuses only on questions of practical importance to psychologists.