What was one way this study changed psychology?
A. It demonstrated the complex interactions between human thoughts and human behaviors.
B. It confirmed past theories that greater rewards (more valuable reinforcements) lead to greater behavior change.
C. It showed how even an ingenious scientific study cannot predict human thought.
D. It was one of the first studies to examine the human motivation for lying.
Answer: A
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What is the appropriate conclusion from this study (? = .05)?
A. Being outgoing makes people more quiet. B. There is a negative relation between outgoing and quiet. C. People who are outgoing are less quiet. D. People who are outgoing grew up in a large family, so they are not used to quiet environment.
Which of the following statements about recent research in developmental psychology is true?
A. Recent research has settled the controversy of the influences of nature and nurture. B. Recent research has questioned some of Piaget's theories, such as object permanence. C. Recent research has conclusively authenticated virtually all of Freud's psychosexual theories. D. Recent research has created suspicion that Piaget's original studies may have been falsified.
The idea that we often learn about ourselves by comparing our group's performance with that of another group of people is reflective of:
a) social comparison theory. b) LeBon's view on mob violence. c) cognitive dissonance. d) performance comparison theory.
Obesity is caused by ________ factors
A) a combination of genetic and environmental B) genetic C) environmental D) biomedical