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In order to move away from egocentrism and toward the ability to represent
another person's mind in one's own, an individual must develop an implicit
set of ideas about the existence of mental states, such as beliefs and feelings,
in oneself and others, known as?
✓✓ Theory of mind.
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Proximity plays an important role in attraction because?
✓✓ It allows people to get to know one another and sets the stage for
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familiarity.
In negative reinforcement, an increase in behaviour follows?
✓✓ Removal of something aversive.
Drive reduction theory argues that motivation is a function of?
✓✓ Drive and reinforcement.
Lee's research is a classic example of a discipline that focuses on the
influence of social processes on the way people think, feel, and behave.
Which discipline is this?
✓✓ Social psychology.
Which practice did the government endorse to replace protection and
segregation?
✓✓ Assimilation.
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Measurement is?
✓✓ A concrete way of assessing a variable.
What best states the results of the Harlow study, mentioned in your
textbook that sets out to explain how infant monkeys become emotionally
attached to their mothers?
✓✓ The infants are drawn to their mothers by the security and comfort
their mothers provide.
In his classic series of experiments using rhesus monkeys, Harry Harlow
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observed that the crucial element in forming attachment relationships in
primates is?
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✓✓ Contact Comfort.
On the WAIS-III, the average IQ score ranges between?
✓✓ 85-115.
Insight is?
✓✓ The sudden understanding of the relationship between a problem and
a solution.
Learning a second language is?
✓✓ Easier for a child than an adult.
In the study of the impact of mood on memory mentioned in your
textbook, Bower hypnotised participants to feel either happy or sad. In this
study, happiness and sadness are the two?
✓✓ Conditions of the independent variable.
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It is not uncommon to hear a current supermodel state that s/he was rarely
asked out on a date as an adolescent. According to your text, this is
because?
✓✓ People tend to choose partners they perceive to be of equal
attractiveness to themselves.
Research shows that speed of processing correlates with?
✓✓ Academic achievement.
Good psychological research should be?
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✓✓ Grounded in theory and use standardised procedures.
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One of the limitations of the experimental method is?
✓✓ Difficulty in establishing external validity.
Case studies are?
✓✓ Subject to more researcher bias than other approaches.
Although most studies conducted regarding the importance of physical
attractiveness imply that appearance is the most important criteria to almost
everyone, this conclusion is erroneous because?
✓✓ Most of these studies were conducted with university students who
tend to put a greater emphasis on appearance than do people in their later
twenties or older.
What is the importance of random sampling in survey research?
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✓✓ To ensure that survey results accurately reflect the population as a
whole without introducing systematic bias.
A researcher investigating dyslexia looks at various factors in the lives of
dyslexic children and finds the following correlations: +.25 correlation
between degree of dyslexia and number of relatives with dyslexia; +.15
correlation between degree of dyslexia and parental alcoholism; -.35
correlation between degree of dyslexia and family income; 0 correlation
between degree of dyslexia and number of siblings. Which of these exhibits
the strongest correlation with dyslexia?
✓✓ Family income.
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In your textbook, the author discusses a study that investigates the kinds of
boys who are popular. The researchers hypothesised some popular kids are
actually aggressive kids who impress others with their 'toughness'. The
dependent variable(s) in this study is/are?
✓✓ Popularity and aggressiveness.
When using the term "Ailan Kaston", people from the Tiwi Islands are
referring to?
✓✓ Island custom.
Severe intellectual disability reflect?
✓✓ Mostly reflects some biological anomaly.
In a positive co-relationship, the distribution of data points will?
✓✓ Move from lower left to upper right.
Modern neuroimaging techniques use?
PSS120: Exam Prep Questions with Detailed
Verified Answers (100% Correct Answers)
/Already Graded A+
In order to move away from egocentrism and toward the ability to represent
another person's mind in one's own, an individual must develop an implicit
set of ideas about the existence of mental states, such as beliefs and feelings,
in oneself and others, known as?
✓✓ Theory of mind.
©, 2025 All rights reserved®
Proximity plays an important role in attraction because?
✓✓ It allows people to get to know one another and sets the stage for
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familiarity.
In negative reinforcement, an increase in behaviour follows?
✓✓ Removal of something aversive.
Drive reduction theory argues that motivation is a function of?
✓✓ Drive and reinforcement.
Lee's research is a classic example of a discipline that focuses on the
influence of social processes on the way people think, feel, and behave.
Which discipline is this?
✓✓ Social psychology.
Which practice did the government endorse to replace protection and
segregation?
✓✓ Assimilation.
, 2 Exampromax - Stuvia US 2025/2026
Measurement is?
✓✓ A concrete way of assessing a variable.
What best states the results of the Harlow study, mentioned in your
textbook that sets out to explain how infant monkeys become emotionally
attached to their mothers?
✓✓ The infants are drawn to their mothers by the security and comfort
their mothers provide.
In his classic series of experiments using rhesus monkeys, Harry Harlow
©, 2025 All rights reserved®
observed that the crucial element in forming attachment relationships in
primates is?
Exampromax - Stuvia US
✓✓ Contact Comfort.
On the WAIS-III, the average IQ score ranges between?
✓✓ 85-115.
Insight is?
✓✓ The sudden understanding of the relationship between a problem and
a solution.
Learning a second language is?
✓✓ Easier for a child than an adult.
In the study of the impact of mood on memory mentioned in your
textbook, Bower hypnotised participants to feel either happy or sad. In this
study, happiness and sadness are the two?
✓✓ Conditions of the independent variable.
, 3 Exampromax - Stuvia US 2025/2026
It is not uncommon to hear a current supermodel state that s/he was rarely
asked out on a date as an adolescent. According to your text, this is
because?
✓✓ People tend to choose partners they perceive to be of equal
attractiveness to themselves.
Research shows that speed of processing correlates with?
✓✓ Academic achievement.
Good psychological research should be?
©, 2025 All rights reserved®
✓✓ Grounded in theory and use standardised procedures.
Exampromax - Stuvia US
One of the limitations of the experimental method is?
✓✓ Difficulty in establishing external validity.
Case studies are?
✓✓ Subject to more researcher bias than other approaches.
Although most studies conducted regarding the importance of physical
attractiveness imply that appearance is the most important criteria to almost
everyone, this conclusion is erroneous because?
✓✓ Most of these studies were conducted with university students who
tend to put a greater emphasis on appearance than do people in their later
twenties or older.
What is the importance of random sampling in survey research?
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✓✓ To ensure that survey results accurately reflect the population as a
whole without introducing systematic bias.
A researcher investigating dyslexia looks at various factors in the lives of
dyslexic children and finds the following correlations: +.25 correlation
between degree of dyslexia and number of relatives with dyslexia; +.15
correlation between degree of dyslexia and parental alcoholism; -.35
correlation between degree of dyslexia and family income; 0 correlation
between degree of dyslexia and number of siblings. Which of these exhibits
the strongest correlation with dyslexia?
✓✓ Family income.
©, 2025 All rights reserved®
Exampromax - Stuvia US
In your textbook, the author discusses a study that investigates the kinds of
boys who are popular. The researchers hypothesised some popular kids are
actually aggressive kids who impress others with their 'toughness'. The
dependent variable(s) in this study is/are?
✓✓ Popularity and aggressiveness.
When using the term "Ailan Kaston", people from the Tiwi Islands are
referring to?
✓✓ Island custom.
Severe intellectual disability reflect?
✓✓ Mostly reflects some biological anomaly.
In a positive co-relationship, the distribution of data points will?
✓✓ Move from lower left to upper right.
Modern neuroimaging techniques use?
