When is optimism NOT appropriate?
a. If your goal involves planning for a risky and uncertain future.
b. If your goal is to counsel others whose future is dim.
c. If you want to appear sympathetic to people’s troubles.
d. All of the above.
all of the above
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What is a limitation of the use of psychological assessment?
a. There is little variability in people's psychological reactions. b. There is a high correlation among different autonomic response systems. c. Psychological reactivity and stability vary from person to person. d. They provide little information beyond what patients can report of themselves.
In order to arrive at a creative solution to a problem, it is often useful to
a. get to the specifics of the problem quickly. b. define the problem as narrowly as possible. c. break mental sets and challenge assumptions. d. discard as many impractical suggestions as quickly as possible.
Which of the following statements about absolute thresholds is NOT true?
a. There are individual differences in absolute thresholds. b. Our ears are particularly sensitive to sounds that are very low in pitch. c. The measure of the absolute threshold for taste is the equivalent of 1 teaspoon of sugar dissolved in 2 gallons of water. d. A person's motivation to detect a stimulus may affect their absolute threshold.
The imitation theory of language acquisition is hindered by a finding that children learn to use syntax gradually and that even adults use grammatically incorrect sentences. This is the basis of which principle of critical thinking?
A) Falsifiability B) Correlation vs. causation C) Extraordinary claims Incorrect. There is nothing extraordinary in either the claims made by the theory or the evidence produced to falsify that model. D) Replicability