Which of these actions could prevent most cases of Korsakoff's syndrome?
a. Require all children to receive vaccinations against measles and chicken pox.
b. Fortify all alcoholic beverages with vitamin B1
c. Decrease consumption of high-fructose corn syrup.
d. Ban the use of certain pesticides and herbicides.
b
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Which of these procedures would induce cognitive dissonance?
a. Ask for your opinion when others around you are expressing a different opinion. b. Ask you to administer increasing levels of shock to another person. c. Have you watch your behavior on videotape and explain why you acted that way. d. Pay you a small reward to say something contrary to your attitudes.
Olga goes along with her brother Joe to his gymnastics class and watches closely while he works on the balance beam. One day, Olga's Mom finds her out in the back yard, with a board spread across two big boxes, doing some of the same maneuvers that she has seen Joe do in class. This is an example of
a. observational learning. b. operant conditioning. c. passivity. d. formal operations.
Nothing in a man's life seems to be going right. Since being laid-off, he has continually failed in his attempts at finding work, even though he's moved to different cities several times. Now he can't even seem to form new friendships. He has developed a sense of despair and is drifting into depression. This is related to the concept known as:
a. learned helplessness b. cognitive hopelessness c. maladaptive behavior theory d. adaptation failure theory
The result of a sperm fertilizing an egg is called a ____
a. chromosome c. zygote b. fetus d. DNA