psych 1x03 quizterm

What type of experiment involves the participants completing both the control and experimental manipulations?

• A double blind experiment

• A within participants design

• A single blind experiment

• A between participants design

What are the three measures of central tendency?

• Mean, median, and standard deviation

• Mean, average, and T test

• Mean, Median, and Mode

• Mean, average, and median

What is the term used to describe a tendency to only examine evidence which supports a hypothesis?

• Availability heuristic

• Representative heuristic

• Framing bias

• Conformation bias

What is the phenomenon in which the CR may be elicited after extinction

• Spontaneous relearning

• Competitive relearning

• spontaneous recovery

• competitive recovery

Which type of schedule is more resistant to extinction?

• Variable

• Fixed

• Continuous

• Ratio

• none of the above

Why do people perceive unfamiliar languages as being spoken too fast?

• They do not know all the morphemes in the unfamiliar language

• They have difficulty segmenting the speech stream into word units

• They have lost universal phoneme sensitivity and cant tell the phonemes in the speech apart

• They aren't familiar with the syntax of the language and cant figure out the sentence structure

What phenomenon allows responses to a range of similar stimuli?

• Responce generalization

• Stimulus generalization

• Conditional generalization

• Operant generalization

What task must be mastered to move to the pre operational stage?

• Object permanence

• Abstract thinking

• Seriation

• Egocentrism

What mechanism helps to provide balance/homeostasis in physiological regulation?

• Stimulus generalization

• Systematic desensitization

• Discriminatory stimulus

• Compensatory responses

What procedure is used to test phonemic sensitivity in infants?

• Stanford-Binet Test

• Segmentation Procedure

• Head turning Procedure

• Stimulus discrimination procedure