According to stimulus motives, if a person is bored they will be motivated to
a. fall asleep. c. withdraw.
b. seek stimulation. d. none of these.
B
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An experimenter investigated the ability to concentrate as a function of crowding. Concentration was measured as the amount of time it took the participant to complete a word puzzle. How should the experimenter summarize the scores on the dependent variable?
a. Find the mode for crowding because crowding scores are nominal. b. Find the mean amount of crowding, if crowding scores are normally distributed. c. Find the mean amount of time it took to solve the puzzle, if time scores are normally distributed. d. Find the median amount of time it took to solve the puzzle because time scores are ordinal.
The _____ theory suggests that schizophrenia causes victims to fall from a higher to a lower socioeconomic level or to remain poor because they are unable to function effectively.
A. social deviance B. labeling C. diathesis-stress D. downward drift
Amu lives in an isolated area and very close-knit community. The community hunts and farms together and must do so to survive. If Amu suddenly becomes aggressive toward other community members, how is he likely to be treated?
a. He'll be rewarded with a larger share of food. b. He will be elected to a leadership position in the community. c. He will be shunned and perhaps even cast out of the community. d. His behavior will be ignored and won't attract any attention.
A hypothesis is NOT ______.
A. derived from a theory B. a statement of relationship C. testable D. levels of the independent variable