Tara had struggled for hours trying to figure out how to finance his spring break trip. He was just about to give up, when the solution suddenly was obvious. This pattern of problem solving is characteristic of:
a. means-ends analysis
b. the incubation effect
c. insight
d. the prototype approach
C
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Some psychologists prefer to study animals rather than humans because
a. animal subjects tend to be more cooperative than humans. b. it's easier to control the factors influencing animals' behavior. c. researchers do not have to worry about causing discomfort to animals. d. most animals are unable to figure out the hypotheses for a particular study.
What are the four grapevine patterns?
What will be an ideal response?
A leading researcher and clinician in the treatment of autism
is Ivar Lovaas, who claimed that the use of ABA (applied behavior analysis) with children diagnosed with autism led to increased language and intellectual skills. Others have argued that his intervention was not nearly as effective as he suggested, but rather that some of his participants were simply higher functioning to begin with. This alternate interpretation of Lovaas's results is a demonstration of which of the six principles of scientific thinking? A) Falsifiability B) Ruling out rival hypotheses C) Correlation vs. correlation D) Extraordinary claims
Our visual sensation of a passing automobile would be initially stored in ___________
a. the sensory registers b. short-term memory c. long-term memory d. the hippocampus