Your friend's mother was always baking ginger-flavoured cookies whenever you were at her house. You loved those cookies, and would eat several each time you visited. One day, you noticed that you started to salivate as soon as you walked up the front steps to the house, before you even smelled the cookies. The reason for this is that the house has become a(n):
A) unconditioned response.
B) unconditioned stimulus.
C) conditioned response.
D) conditioned stimulus.
D) conditioned stimulus.
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What is the standard error of the mean for a distribution of scores where s = 50 and n = 75?
a. 5.77 b. 0.066 c. 1.5 d. unable to determine
You have been asked to give a report on the mental hygiene movement and its foremost crusader, Dorothea Dix, who campaigned for more humane treatment of the insane. After mentioning all of her accomplishments, you note the unforeseen consequence of her efforts, namely,
A. a decrease in the number of mental patients in institutions, forcing many to close. B. an increase in the number of mental patients, resulting in insufficient staff to care for them. C. a change from custodial care to moral therapy for institutionalized patients. D. more patients receiving psychotherapy and fewer receiving medication.
The SAT scores of the incoming freshmen at a particular university are highly correlated with the same students’ cumulative GPA at the end of their freshman year. In this example, the SAT has high ______ validity.
a. content b. construct c. predictive d. ecological
Which of the following is true regarding human brain development?
Once damage is done to an area of the brain, there is nothing that can be done to repair it. Any changes in brain functioning must take place before the age of five. An entire hemisphere of the brain can be removed and the other hemisphere will take over functions that the removed hemisphere previously performed. The brain is capable of reorganizing the functioning of various centers in the brain only during the first six months of life.