A consultant ranks the five most needed areas of improvement for a local business. What scale of measurement are the rankings?
A. nominal
B. ordinal
C. interval
D. ratio
Answer: B
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The field of psychology that studies people in their natural environment and attempts to analyze the effects of the physical environment on social behavior is known as
a. behaviorism. b. cognition. c. environmental psychology. d. ecological psychology.
Who is displaying an externalizing problem?
a. Darrin, who is worrying about his psychology exam b. Samantha, who is depressed c. Tabitha, who punches other children on the playground d. Stevens, who is extremely shy
In behavior modification, the term punishment is used to refer to a process in which the consequence of a behavior results in:
a. retribution for the behavior b. a weakening of the behavior c. retaliation for the behavior d. all of these
Bernstein applied principles of classical conditioning to the study of taste aversion in young patients undergoing chemotherapy. The children were given some unusually flavored ice cream just before the chemotherapy. Later, the children showed an aversion to that flavor of ice cream. In this example of classical conditioning, the nausea following chemotherapy was:
a. an unconditioned stimulus b. an unconditioned response c. a conditioned stimulus d. a conditioned response