Which of these is not a basic assumption of behaviorism?
People with opposing views of capital punishment reviewed mixed evidence regarding its effectiveness as a crime deterrent. As a result, their opposing views differed more strongly than ever. This best illustrates:
College students routinely underestimate how much time it was take them to complete assigned course projects. This best illustrates the impact of:
Jimmy is at the stage of language development where he uses one word to convey a complete thought or idea. This is called:
The representative heuristic can lead to both:
According to Allport, four levels of prejudices are:
Stress may not always be ‘out there’ but mostly originate within individual. Which one of the following is the correct answer to justify the statements?
The mobilization of the body for action when an individual is faced with a stressful situation is known as:
A problem, which naturally occurs in selection process in industrial setting is known as:
B.F. Skinner emphasized the importance of______in language acquisition.
Lavonne was careful to avoid the use of dangling participates and run-on sentences in her essay because she did not want to lose points for faulty:
Because she believes that boys are naughtier than girls, Mrs. Zumpano, a second-grade teacher, watches boys more closely than she watch girls for any signs of misbehavior. Mrs. Zumpano’s surveillance strategy best illustrates:
Word meaning is to word order as_____is to_____.
Consider the following statements: Moral understanding in a child of 5 years of age is limited because of their:
People experience learned a helplessness when they encounter uncontrollability. This generates a cluster of syndromes. Which of the following is more likely?
Which of the following is considered true with regards to language development?
An authoritarian personality may possess the diametrically opposite characteristics of aggression and submission. This can be explained by:
According to psychoanalytic theory, the basic elements of personality are id, ego and super-ego. These three are respectively represented as:
Maham forgot to bring a pillow on the camping trip, so she spent a very uncomfortable and restless night. Unfortunately, she never thought of using her down-filed jacket as a pillow. Maham’s oversight best illustrates:
Which of the following statements are correct?
Which of the following statements are correct?
Chomsky suggested that a person’s unique experiences with a language are most likely to influence the________of that person’s spoken sentences.
A photo type is a:
Research participants were asked to identify a word that could be associated meaningfully with each of three other words. Solutions that occurred with sudden insight were accompanied by a burst of activity in the brain’s______lobe.
The structures of language include:
What do cognitive psychologists compare the mind to?
By dividing board concepts into increasingly smaller and detailed sub-groupings, we create:
Which profession is cognitive psychology particularly useful in helping?
The English language has___letters than phonemes and the consonant phonemes generally carry_______information than the vowel phonemes.
What does cognitive psychology investigate?
“Apple is to fruit as hamburger is to_____is an example of:
Thinking that moves from specific cases to general principles is:
Noam Chomsky has emphasized that the acquisition of language by children is facilitated by:
When the word “oat” is changed to the word “boat,” the number of:
If we know that all dogs have tails, and thus poodles must then have tails, we are demonstrating________reasoning?
In wolfgang Kohler’s experiment, the chimpanzee Sultan retrieved a long stick with a short stick to retrieve a piece of fruit. Sultan was able to reach the fruit as a result of:
Stockbrokers often believe that their own expertise will enable them to select stocks that will outperform the market average. This belief best illustrates:
You have a pair of pilers and a bag of nuts in the shell. You are lamenting the fact that you can’t shell the nuts because you do not have a nutcracker. Your inability to perceive the pilers as a makeshift nutcracker demonstrates_______on your part.
Greg is using single words to say a complete thought or idea. What is this called?
Stimulus motives are:
The polygraph or “lie detector” primarily measures which component of emotion?
The chief antidote for test anxiety is:
A simple experiment has two groups of subjects called:
It has been suggested that Alaskan Eskimos’ rich vocabulary for describing snow enables them to perceive differences in snow conditions that would otherwise go unnoticed. This suggestion most clearly illustrates:
For the connection between the CS and the CR to be strengthened, the CS must:
The representativeness heuristic refers to our tendency to:
Aima just upgraded her software package. However, even though the updated version contains a number of more efficient methods for working with files, Aima continues to work with files the way she did before the upgrade. In this case, Aima is showing evidence of:
Prototype is to category as___is to_______.
A neutral stimulus is one that:
Which of the following might serve as a secondary reinforcer?
A term coach who benches a player for poor performance is using:

Semantics refers to the:

A. orderly arrangements of words into grammatically correct sentences
B. derivation of meaning from morphemes, words, and sentences
C. logical and methodical procedures for solving problems
D. simple thinking strategies that facilitate quick decision making

Correct Answer: derivation of meaning from morphemes, words, and sentences ✔

Last Updated: May 05, 2024