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Question 1: Which of the following is an unconditioned response?
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sweating in hot weather Question 2: The similarity between the intelligence test scores of identical twins raised apart is
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greater than that between ordinary siblings reared together Question 3: Both the receipt of monetary rewards and the suspension of monetary fines most clearly serve as ________ reinforcers.
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conditioned Question 4: The concept of emotional intelligence is most likely to be criticized for
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extending the definition of intelligence to an overly broad range of skills
Question 5: The basic units of cognition are
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concepts Question 6: Bill once had a blue car that was in the shop more than it was out. Since then he will not even consider owning blue- or green-colored cars. Bill's aversion to green cars is an example of
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generalization.Question 7: Rules for organizing stimuli into coherent groups were first identified by
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Gestalt psychologists.Question 8: As Sherod walked away from the camera, the image of his body filled a smaller area of the television screen. Nevertheless, viewers did not perceive Sherod as suddenly shrinking.This illustrates
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size constancy Question 9: According to Piaget, a person first comprehends that division is the reverse of multiplication during the ________ stage.
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concrete operational Question 10: Infant motor development is typically characterized by individual differences in ________ of the major developmental milestones
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the age-related timing but not the sequence Question 11: Bilingual children who inhibit one language while using the other can better inhibit their attention to irrelevant information. This has been called
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the bilingual advantage
Question 12: During adolescence, maturation of the ________ lags behind maturation of the
________.
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frontal lobe; limbic system Question 13: Giulio's bag of marbles is twice as heavy as Jim's. If it takes 5 extra marbles to make Jim's bag feel heavier, it will take 10 extra marbles to make Giulio's bag feel heavier. This best illustrates
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Weber's law.Question 14: The disruptive effect of prior learning on the recall of new information is called
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proactive interference.Question 15: After looking up his friend's phone number, Alex was able to remember it only long enough to dial it correctly. In this case, the telephone number was clearly stored in his ________ memory.
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short-term Question 16: Garcia and Koelling's findings on taste aversion in rats challenged the previously accepted principle that
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the US must immediately follow the CS for conditioning to occur
Question 17: People's response to subliminal priming indicates that
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they are capable of processing information without any conscious awareness of doing so.
Question 18: Lower rates of pregnancy have been observed among teens who have
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participated in a service learning program as tutors or teachers' aides
Question 19: Theories of human development have been most susceptible to criticism for overemphasizing
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discrete age-linked stages.
Question 20: One effect of long-term potentiation is that
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a receiving neuron's receptor sites are increased Question 21: By dividing broad concepts into increasingly smaller and detailed subgroupings, we create
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category hierarchies.Question 22: A pigeon is consistently reinforced with food for pecking a key after seeing an image of a human face, but not reinforced for pecking after seeing other images. By signaling that a pecking response will be reinforced, the image of a human face is a(n)
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primary reinforcer Question 23: A listener hearing a recording of Japanese, Spanish, and North American children babbling would
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not be able to tell them apart.Question 24: Chloe can clearly sense when her sister's teasing is intended to be friendly fun or a hostile put-down. This best illustrates that Chloe has developed a(n)
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theory of mind.
Question 25: Subliminally presented stimuli
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can sometimes be consciously perceived.