In social psychological experiments, the experimenter tries to:
What will be an ideal response?
create a functional equivalent to conditions found in the real world
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In an experiment studying classical conditioning, a tone sounds and 5 seconds later a mild skin shock is delivered to a participant. The skin shock results in a stress response consisting of a temporary increase in heart rate. This process is repeated once every 5 minutes. After a number of trials, the participant demonstrates an elevated heart rate when the tone sounds and before the shock is
actually delivered. Within the context of this example, what is the US? A) the shock B) the tone C) the stress D) the time interval
A routine pattern of behavior among members of a setting, especially reflecting roles, relationships and power
a. social climate b. social regularity c. vetoing circuit d. succession
The work of Freud was built around a __________.
A. theory of personality that emphasizes the awareness of one's own cognitive processes B. theory of personality that emphasizes unconscious motives and conflicts C. method of psychotherapy in which an observer carefully records and interprets behavior without interfering with the behavior D. method of psychotherapy that emphasizes how maladaptive behaviors are learned through imitations of others and through cognitive expectations
If a person is sad and gloomy, the early Greeks would have said that the person had which temperament?
a. melancholic b. choleric c. sanguine d. phlegmatic