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Brandon is a psychologist working with a construction company that would like to train all of their employees to use a new machine. Because they’ll be paying the workers while they train, the company would like to train the employees in the fewest possible hours. They ask Brandon to determine what schedule they should use. Brandon takes 50 employees and randomly assigns them to one of two practice schedules: Group 1: 4 hours of training every day Group 2: 1 hour of training every day Brandon then measures how many hours it takes the employees to reach the necessary level of ability on the new machine. He finds that one of the two groups reaches the necessary level of ability in FAR fewer total hours than the other. Based upon your understanding of best practices in learning, you would expect that _______ would be better because their practice was more __________.

Which of the following is the most serious concern with regard to the use of SSRIs in adolescents?

You typically listen to a podcast every morning. One morning, while you are listening, your friend tries to speak to you. She speaks louder and louder, but you continue to not notice. You only notice that she is trying to speak to you once she physically taps you on the shoulder. Your inability to notice your friend speaking is consistent with which theory of attention?

Problem 3 On January 1, Year 1, Hulk Company acquires 60% of Griffin Company for $700,000 cash. The remaining 40% of Griffin’s shares continued to trade at a fair value of $310,000. On the acquisition date, Griffin reported Common Stock of $350,000 and Retained Earnings of $280,000. A Patent on Griffin’s books was undervalued by $100,000 (5-year remaining useful life). Goodwill of $280,000 was recognized and correctly allocated to the Controlling and Noncontrolling Interests. Griffin Company earns income and pays cash dividends as follows:       Year                            Net Income                             Cash Dividends      Year 1                             $ 75,000                                     $39,000      Year 2                                96,000                                       44,000      Year 3                              110,000                                       60,000 Use the information above to answer the next two questions.

Which of the following emotions would be considered HIGH in arousal and POSITIVE in valence?

Cal is the president of a company. Cal has an employee, Peter, who Cal thinks might make a great national sales director one day if he only had a bit more education. Cal thus decides to pay for Peter to get an MBA degree. After Peter receives his MBA, Cal realizes that Peter’s problem wasn’t lack of education. Peter just doesn’t seem to have the ability to be a national sales director. Despite this, Cal decides to promote Peter to national sales director anyway because, as Cal puts it, “otherwise he would have paid for Peter to get an MBA for nothing.” What decision-making issue has Cal fallen victim to?

Catherine is a clinical psychologist interested in the relationship between video game playing and symptoms of Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Catherine randomly recruits 400 9-year-old children. She asks each child’s parent/guardian to fill out two surveys. In the first survey, they are asked to indicate how many hours their child spends playing video games each week. In the second survey, they are asked to indicate whether or not their child exhibits 20 possible behaviors associated with ADHD. For each child, Catherine plots their number of hours of reported game play against the number of behaviors associated with ADHD that they show. When she does this, she ends up with the following graph: Based upon her methods and results, what can Catherine conclude from her study?

Jerrod and Greg take part in a psychology experiment. They are told they could either receive $100 right now, or some other amount of money 1-month from now. They are asked how much money they would need to receive in 1-month in order to choose that option rather than to take the $100 right now. Both Jerrod and Greg say they would need to receive quite a bit more money 1-month from now in order to choose that option. Jerrod ate a big lunch about 45 minutes before the experiment. Greg had to skip breakfast and also hadn’t had time to eat lunch before the experiment. Knowing just those facts, and all other things being equal, you would guess that:

Where and how does the sense of taste occur on the tongue?

James knows that infants naturally pucker their lips when they are exposed to sour tastes. He buys his infant son a bright red pacifier. When he gives the pacifier to his son the first time, his son takes the pacifier and sucks on it without making any particular facial expression. Every subsequent time, right before he gives his son the pacifier, James dips the pacifier in lemon juice (which is very sour). James finds that after about 10 times doing this, his son starts to pucker his lips as soon as he touches the bright red pacifier (before he even puts it in his mouth). In this example of classical conditioning, the unconditioned response is: