The greatest drawback of the information-processing perspective is its difficulty with
A) breaking down children's thoughts into precise procedures.
B) putting the components of cognition into a broad, comprehensive theory.
C) analyzing cognition into its components.
D) reducing changes in thoughts into manageable proportions.
Answer: B
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The demonstration by Jane Elliot with blue-eyed and brown-eyed children suggests that an effective way to generate conditions of prejudice is to
a. require persons to compete for scarce resources. b. intermingle two diverse groups with each other. c. produce inequalities in power, prestige, or privileges. d. demand that members of two groups cooperate to achieve a common goal.
The belief that one cannot escape from an aversive stimulus can be ______ and thus ______.
a. unlearned; learned b. learned; unlearned c. reinforced; learned d. learned; punished
Briefly review the differences between individuals with schizophrenia and those without the disorder in the brain’s (a) gray matter, (b) white matter, and (c) ventricles.
What will be an ideal response?
If an experimenter accepts the alternative hypothesis, when in fact the null hypothesis is true, he
or she A) has found significance B) has made a Type II error C) must redo the entire experiment D) has made a Type I error