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• When considering the mind-body puzzle, ancient philosophers who argued that the mind is not separate from the body would belong to which philosophical position? Monism
• Dr. Kiel is designing a study to test the effectiveness of a new anxiety medication. The study includes a placebo control group and neither the participants nor the research assistants who give out the medications know whether the participant is receiving the actual drug or a placebo. This study is a good example of: The double-blind procedure
• Which of the following lobes of the brain is responsible for processing visual information? Occipital lobe
• The text describes a classic experiment in which Watson and Rayner (1920) conditioned a baby called Albert to be afraid of a white rabbit. They did this by pairing the white rabbit with a loud sound, which was a sound that already frightened Albert. After Albert was successfully conditioned to fear the white rabbit, Watson and Rayner also observed that Albert was afraid of other objects that were furry. For example, Albert was afraid of furry white and grey objects such as a Santa mask and a rabbit. The finding that Albert was afraid of these other objects shows that what had taken place was: Stimulus generalization
• A young child is hungry and wants a biscuit but is too short to reach the table where the biscuit jar is kept. She tries various things to get the jar, such as jumping or throwing her teddy bear at the jar in the hope of knocking it off the table, but to no avail. Eventually, almost by accident, she realizes that she can pull the tablecloth on which the jar rests and is thus able to reach the jar. In the future, she will be more likely to try this technique again because it was effective. This example best demonstrates: Thorndike´s law of effect
• Vocabulary and information tests are good measures of _____ intelligence. Crystallized
• According to Carl Rogers, the highest realization of human potential is: Self-actualisation
• Iconic memory is to echoic memory as: Sight is to sound
• Which of the following brain structures seems to function as an early-warning system for threatening social stimuli? The amygdala
• n Erik Erickson's _______________ stage of psychosocial development, how adequately a person's needs are met and how much love they receive determine the amount of faith that he or she has in the world. basic trust versus basic mistrust

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