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The behavioral research perspective is similar to the sociocultural research perspective because both focus on how behavior and mental processes are explained by
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the external environment
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Which of the following cortical areas is most closely associated with vision?
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Occipital
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Frequency theory and place theory attempt to explain how the inner ear registers the pitch of sound. Which statement best reflects current opinion about frequency theory and place theory?
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Place theory explains the perception of high-frequency sounds well, and frequency theory explains the perception of low-frequency sounds well.
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After initial conditioning, an unconditioned stimulus is no longer presented with the conditioned stimulus, and the conditioned response gradually stops occurring. This change in behavior is called
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extinction
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Priming is considered part of implicit memory because it
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occurs without conscious awareness
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Which of the following is a disadvantage of relying on external rewards to motivate behavior?
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There is potential to reduce intrinsic motivation.
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Researchers know that infants' sense of smell is fairly well developed at birth because newborns prefer the smell of
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a nursing pad from their mother to the smell of a pad from another mother
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Amy appears to have an irrational and maladaptive fear of flying. She will not fly to visit her children and grandchildren, and she has even lost a job because she refused to fly to meet clients. Amy would most likely be diagnosed with which of the following anxiety disorders?
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Specific phobia
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Tom fails his math exam. If he explains his failure by using an internal attribution, his reason for failing might be which of the following?
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Tom is not smart or not good at math.
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In order to illustrate how often a particular score occurs in a given data set, researchers use
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a frequency distribution
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