A psychologist's hope that his or her research will help to solve some practical problem reflects which goal of science?
a. Application and control
b. Construction and revision
c. Understanding and prediction
d. Measurement and description
A
You might also like to view...
A physician at a hospital in the late 1800s has read about the disease called general paresis. Which of the following patients is most likely to receive such a diagnosis?
a. Alice, whose symptoms include restlessness and agitation b. Brenda, whose symptoms include insomnia and obsession c. Bob, whose symptoms include lack of appetite and suicidal thoughts d. Al, whose symptoms include delusions of grandeur and progressive paralysis
The _____ parenting approach involves high acceptance-responsiveness and high demandingness-control
a. authoritative b. authoritarian c. neglectful d. permissive
How many sperm per day are commonly produced by the human male?
a. 300 b. 3,000 c. 300,000 d. 300 million
Behaviorists after Thorndike rejected his mentalistic terminology, such as
a. "satisfaction." b. "reinforcement." c. "stimulus." d. "conditioning." e. "punishment."