The tendency for us to blame people and underestimate the environment for causing behavior is known as the:

A. Self-serving bias
B. Balance principle
C. Cognitive dissonance model
D. Fundamental attribution error

An educated guess about what is controlling some behaviour is called:

A. Experimental control
B. A hypothesis
C. An experimental variables
D. A theory

What is streaming?

A. Where your put students into a form for all subjects according to ability
B. Put students into individual subjects according to ability
C. A class of mixed abilities
D. Put students into a class according to gender

The effects of brain injury on personality would usually be investigated by the use of the:

A. Experimental method
B. Case study method
C. Naturalistic observation method
D. Survey method

If you’re trying to establish a causal relationship between a reinforcer and increased performance. you should use a(n)________method.

A. Clinical study
B. Experimental
C. Survey
D. Correlational

Television sets are able to recreate the entire visible spectrum by additively mixing three primary colors. This process is similar to the view of human color vision called:

A. Complementary color theory
B. Trichromatic theory
C. Opponent-process theory
D. Saturation theory

In conjunction search:

A. The target/distractor difference is not based on a single feature, but on conjunctions of features
B. Search time for the target is not constant, but instead rises with the number of distractors
C. The observer apparently searches through the display serially, scanning each term or small group of items) successively (serial search)
D. All of the above

In their study of the influence of subliminal perception on attitudes Krosnick and his colleagues (1992) found:

A. Absolutely no evidence of such influence
B. Overwhelming evidences that subliminal stimuli can and do influences subjects’ attitudes
C. That subliminal stimuli do not really exist
D. Small but measurable effects

In my experiment I am going to investigate how sleep affects anxiety. The number of hours of sleep the subjects have been called the _________________variable.

A. Control
B. Experiential
C. Dependent
D. Independent

The group polarization effect implies that:

A. Group decisions will always be better that individual decisions
B. When most of the group members initially favor a cautions decision, discussion will cause the group to adopt even more cautions decision
C. A group will always eventually divide into groups with opposing decisions
D. When most of the group members initially favor a cautions decision, discussion will cause the group to adopt a risky decision