What procedure do psychologists recommend to reduce the probability that a witness will identify an incorrect person in a police lineup?
a. Present the lineup sequentially, with no opportunity to reexamine a photo.
b. Let the witness examine all suspects repeatedly before making a choice.
c. Encourage the witness to identify someone
d. Identify to the witness the person the police most strongly suspect.
a
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The most promising treatment for somatic symptom disorders involves which approach?
a. biological b. psychobiodynamic c. cognitive-behavioral d. sociocultural
In Nazi Germany, obedient soldiers, who had once been average citizens helped slaughter more than six million people in concentration camps. When confronted with this atrocious act, many of the soldiers rationalized that they were just following orders, that is they
a. exhibited passive compliance to the Nazi command. b. succumbed to legitimate persuasion from their superiors. c. exhibited excessive obedience to an authority. d. exhibited false attribution to their country.
Which of these is NOT a limitation of the naturalistic observation research method?
a. It is unable to identify the causes of behavior. b. It is inapplicable to rarely occurring behaviors. c. It is inapplicable to undesirable behaviors that are performed privately. d. The behaviors happen at sites where they commonly occur.
Every time Bert slices onions, the onions burn his eyes and tears run down his face. One day he opened the silverware drawer and pulled out the knife that he uses only to peel onions and immediately started to shed tears from the sight of the knife. In this situation, the onion is the __________, and the knife is the __________.
A. conditioned stimulus; unconditioned stimulus B. unconditioned stimulus; conditioned stimulus C. conditioned response; unconditioned response D. unconditioned response; conditioned response