Your clock makes a clicking sound just before the alarm. Initially that sound didn't waken you, but now it does, due to classical conditioning. What is the alarm?
a. Conditioned stimulus
b. Unconditioned stimulus
c. Conditioned response
d. Unconditioned response
b
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Based on your text's discussion, the correlation between intelligence and brain volume is best described as:
a) weak and negative. b) essentially zero. c) weak and positive. d) moderate and positive.
Children who are adopted
a. more often have a difficult temperament than non-adopted children. b. are more likely to have problems when their care before adoption was poor. c. at a younger age have more problems than those who were adopted when older. d. are more likely than non-adopted children to have attachment problems and cognitive delays.
Claudine only hires employees that say they are hard workers during their job interview. Despite this claim, many of Claudine's employees quit within the first six months due to the demanding workload. Which of the following would be best for helping Claudine select employees who will be dutiful and persist, despite the demands of the job?
A. Having a second person interview applicants to see if their responses are consistent B. Conducting multiple interviews with the same interviewer and seeing if their responses are consistent C. Administering a valid personality inventory and selecting people high in conscientiousness D. Administering the MMPI assessment and selecting people who score low on all ten scales
Delilah is the shy, retiring type-a classic introvert. She is happy in the company of books and her own thoughts. According to the principles of reciprocal determinism, how will Delilah's personality characteristics relate to the environments she seeks?
A. Delilah will seek stimulating environments, such as concerts or crowded theme parks, to counterbalance her dispositional qualities. B. Delilah will seek environments such as libraries, quiet cafes, or secluded parks, which will in turn reinforce her introverted tendencies. C. Delilah will seek behaviorally neutral environments, so she can focus on introspection and self-examination. D. Delilah's personality characteristics will be unrelated to the environments she seeks, as personality is an internal dimension and environments refer to the external world.