If given some weights and asked to balance a scale by hooking the weights onto the scale's arms, how will the most cognitively advanced adolescents determine where to place the weights to balance the scale? How about preadolescents?
What will be an ideal response?
The teenager should be able to make systematic calculations based on multiplying
the weight times the distance from center. Younger children will use trial and error.
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During attempts to use hypnosis to aid memory, what is the usual result?
a. Hypnotized people report the same memories as if they had not been hypnotized. b. Hypnotized people report more items, but most of the new items are incorrect. c. Hypnotized people report more items, and most of the new items are correct. d. Hypnotized people report fewer items, but everything they report is correct.
A manager is about to make a decision regarding work schedules. He has been with the company for 20 years and has all of the information needed to make the decision. Though work schedules are a touchy issue, the manager is well thought of by his employees. How should he make the decision?
a. Make the decision himself b. Ask for employee input and then decide c. Have his employees make the decision d. Give the employees options and let them vote
Theory building is important in psychology because it
a. prevents excessive reliance on empiricism. b. reduces the need for hypothesis testing. c. relies heavily on naturalistic observation. d. provides explanations and guides future research.
Which of the following is NOT a subscale of Zuckerman's Sensation Seeking Scale?
a. thrill and adventure seeking b. enabling seeking c. experience seeking d. boredom susceptibility