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The nature-nurture issue refers to the debate over the relative contributions that
________ make to the development of psychological traits.
genes and experience
Political officials who have no doubt that their own economic and military
predictions will come true most clearly demonstrate
overconfidence
Dr. Lipka focuses on ways to improve employee job satisfaction and productivity.
Dr. Lipka is most likely a(n) ________ psychologist.
industrial-organizational.
Functionalism was a school of psychology that focused attention on the
adaptive value of conscious thoughts and emotions
The perception that psychological research findings merely verify our
commonsense understanding is most clearly facilitated by
hindsight bias
To assess the influence of self-esteem on interpersonal attraction, researchers
either insulted or complimented students about their physical appearance just
before they went on a blind date. In this research, the dependent variable was
interpersonal attraction
, The relief of pain following the taking of an inactive substance that is perceived to
have medicinal benefits illustrates
the placebo effect
Which of the following is most useful for helping survey researchers avoid false
generalizations?
Random Sampling
In an experimental study of the effects of anxiety on self-esteem, anxiety would
be the ________ variable.
independent
The simplified reality of laboratory experiments is most helpful in enabling
psychologists to
develop general principles that help explain behavior
Reuptake refers to the
reabsorption of excess neurotransmitter molecules by a sending neuron.
Increasing excitatory signals above the threshold for neural activation will not
affect the intensity of an action potential. This indicates that a neuron's reaction
is
an all-or-none response
The unique genetically influenced traits of children evoke predictable responses
from their caregivers. This best illustrates the ________ of nature and nurture
Interaction
An axon is
the extension of a neuron that carries messages away from the cell body.