TEST BANK FOR PSYCHOLOGY 13TH EDITION DAVID G. MYERS NATHAN C. DEWALL ISBN: 9781319348137 ISBN: 9781319347970 ISBN: 9781319348151 ISBN: 9781319347963 ISBN: 9781319132101 ISBN: 9781319393793 ISB

TABLE OF CONTENTS Prologue The Story of Psychology 1. Thinking Critically With Psychological Science 2. The Biology of Mind 3. Consciousness and the Two-Track Mind 4. Nature, Nurture, and Human Diversity 5. Developing Through the Life Span 6. Sensation and Perception 7. Learning 8. Memory 9. Thinking and Language 10. Intelligence 11. What Drives Us: Hunger, Sex, Friendship, and Achievement 12. Emotions, Stress, and Health 13. Social Psychology 14. Personality 15. Psychological Disorders 16. Therapy chapter 1 Copyright Macmillan Learning. Powered by Cognero. Page 1 Indicate the answer choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. 1. If results are statistically significant but have a small effect size, the results may a. lack practical significance. b. lack a cause-effect relationship. c. represent a negative relationship. d. represent a neutral relationship. 2. In one study, introductory psychology students were fitted with electronically activated recorders so that researchers could sample their daily activities. The researchers were employing a scientific method known as a. naturalistic observation. b. the double-blind procedure. c. experimentation. d. the case study. 3. Studies conducted in the late 1990s in which the researcher concluded that children who were administered the MMR vaccination developed autism were a. withheld from the public intentionally. b. accurate. c. never published by academic journals. d. discovered to be fraudulent. 4. Seven members of a boys' club reported the following individual earnings from their sale of cookies: $2, $9, $8, $10, $4, $9, and $7. In this distribution of individual earnings a. the median is greater than the mean and greater than the mode. b. the median is less than the mean and less than the mode. c. the median is greater than the mean and less than the mode. d. the median is less than the mean and greater than the mode. 5. Professor Valetta believes that identical twins have similar levels of intelligence largely because they share common genes. His idea is best described as a(n) a. theory. b. replication. c. naturalistic observation. d. operational definition. 6. The idea that "people's emotions and personal beliefs often override their acceptance of objective facts" is expressed in the dictionary definition of a. false news. b. post-truth. c. powerful examples. d. repetition