"We were not surprised to discover that contact comfort was an important basic affectional or love variable, but we did not expect it to overshadow so completely the variable of nursing." This quotation was written by which of the following psychologists? a. Harry Harlow b. Konrad Lorenz c. B.F. Skinner c. John B. Watson e. Mary Ainsworth

Describe how pregnancy-test kits work.

Research suggests that there is a connection between parenting style and social skills. Children with lower scores on measures of social skills and self-esteem lend to have parents who are a. authoritative. b. permissive. c. authoritarian. d. neglecting. e. demonstrative.

Find each product or quotient. $22\times8$

A researcher finds a difference between an experimental group and a control group that is less likely due to chance and more likely due to the manipulation of the independent variable. This finding then is most likely lo be a. a replication. b statistically significant. c. below the margin of error. d. reliable, but not valid. e. valid, but not reliable.

A psychologist who uses aversive therapy to treat a child’s bed-wetting problem is using which of the following approaches? a. Cognitive. b. Biological. c. Behavioral. d. Evolutionary. e. Social-cultural.

Dr. Warren is testing the link between the consumption of caffeine and a person’s memory. She randomly divides 300 participants into three groups and gives each participant an energy drink to consume. Some of the drinks have high levels of caffeine, some have medium amounts, and some have none at all—but they all taste the same. About 30 minutes later, she has the participants play a memory game on the computer where they have to match faces and names together. At the end of the game, the computer thanks them for playing, and their scores are sent to Dr.Warren’s lab. The dependent variable in the experiment is a. how quickly the participants matched the names and faces. b. the participants’ scores from the memory game. c. the amount of caffeine they consumed. d. their explanations about how they played the game. e. the amount of caffeine they consume in a typical week.

Project A costs $1,000, and its cash flows are the same in Years 1 through 10. Its IRR is 16%, and its WACC is 8%. What is the project’s MIRR?

a. How would an evolutionary psychologists and learning theorist explain the tendency for people to obey authority figures? b. Why do some psychologists believe that catharsis can help prevent aggression? c. How is the bystander effect related to diffusion of responsibility?

The personality test that is based on the writings of Carl Jung is the a. Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory. b. Draw-A-Person test. c. Rorschach inkblot test. d. Thematic Apperception Test. e. Myers-Briggs Type Indicator.

Mary Ainsworth designed the "strange situation" experiment in order to determine a. how creative young children could be in novel environments. b. whether children had developed a secure attachment to their mother. c. if children were more motivated by social anxiety than by peer pressure. d. if the parenting style of mothers affected their children's temperament. e. if early signs of imprinting in young children could be reversed.

How are humidity and relative humidity different?

Consider the following problem: A farmer with 750 ft of fencing wants to enclose a rectangular area and then divide it into four pens with fencing parallel to one side of the rectangle. What is the largest possible total area of the four pens? Write an expression for the total area.

As a patient experiences an anxiety attack, he may experience a series of changes that are coordinated by the sympathetic nervous system. Which one of the following would the patient experience? a. Decreased heart rate. b. Slower breathing. c. Decreased salivation. d. Constricted pupils. e. Increased rate of digestion.