A change in behavior simply as a result of earlier experience in the study is a threat to _________validity
a. internal
b. external
c. construct
d. statistical
a
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Yi is about to have her first child. She lives in Los Angeles and has no relatives living in the United States. For assistance and emotional support during the birth of her first child, she decides to hire a nonprofessional woman known as a
a. lactation specialist. b. doula. c. birth expert. d. prepared childbirth assistant.
Of the following phenomena, which would be of the greatest interest to Max Wertheimer?
A. cultural differences in body language B. how diseases of the brain affect behavior C. seeing a light as moving when in fact individual lights are going on and off D. a child being toilet trained
Dissociative disorders include dissociative amnesia and
a. anterograde amnesia. b. Munchausen syndrome. c. depersonalization disorder. d. conversion disorder.
When Carolyn Rovee-Collier and other researchers use the conjugate reinforcement technique, a baby demonstrates memory by
a. showing dishabituation to a familiar stimulus, measured in terms of sucking responses. b. staring longer at a mobile that has never been seen before. c. smiling more at a familiar stimulus than at an unfamiliar stimulus. d. kicking his or her leg when the mobile is presented.