Corrine sent away for a handwriting analysis, and she couldn't believe it how accurate it was! It told her "you have a great need for other people to like and admire you and a tendency to be critical of yourself."
Psychologists would say that this description fit Corrine because of something known as the
a) self-fulfilling prophecy.
b) correlation fallacy.
c) social-desirability bias.
d) Barnum effect.
D
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Dr. Denton designs an experiment to test the hypothesis that children who are taught alternative ways of responding to failure will show increased persistence in problem solving. Dr. Denton assigns half of a random sample of third-graders to a tutor who emphasizes learning from mistakes rather than improving grades. The other half of the sample receive tutoring without this emphasis on "learning
goals." After two months of tutoring, both groups were given a test of persistence. A possible random variable in this experiment is the ____.? a. ?amount of time before the persistence test b. ?persistence test score c. ?level of intelligence of the children d. ?time of day the experiment was conducted
During an extremely stressful situation, how is encoding affected?
A. It becomes more accurate. B. It is often incomplete. C. It gets more thorough and detailed. D. It is not affected, but storage and retrieval are.
The computer-like model used to describe the way humans encode, store, and retrieve
a. psychodynamic b. heuristic model c. information-processing d. holistic
How do information processing approaches to understanding cognitive development compare to Piaget's approach to understanding cognitive development?
A. Information processing approaches focus on quantitative developments, whereas Piaget's approach focuses on qualitative developments. B. Information processing approaches focus on effective object manipulation, whereas Piaget's approach focuses on efficient object manipulation. C. Information processing approaches focus on qualitative developments, whereas Piaget's approach focuses on quantitative developments. D. Information processing approaches focus on mental representations of processes, whereas Piaget's approach focuses on abstract idealizations of processes.