Psychology Answers

From the perspective of an educator: How would you use your knowledge of operant conditioning in the classroom to set up a program to increase the likelihood that children will complete their homework more frequently?

Your job is to check whether Vaccine A causes more people to have side effects than Vaccine B. Your sample consisted of 50 participants aged 20-35 years and mostly males. There is a written log of all the people who received both vaccines with the number of people who called to say they have had side effects.

1. What is the IV in the study?
2. What is the DV in this study?
3. What is the most appropriate statistical test you can conduct to fulfil your job

requirement. Provide justification to support your answer.

4,Are there any threats to the external validity of your study? Explain with reasons

5, What can you do to carry out double blinding in this experiment? What are the advantages of double blinding?

31.       Investigators want to examine whether a low-fat diet will improve mood in postmenopausal women. Women are randomized to receive (‘intervention group’) or not receive (‘control group’) the 14 week dietary intervention. Their mood is assessed at three time points: baseline, week 14 and week 18. What is this study design?

a.           Quasi-experimental

b.          Cross-sectional

c.           Retrospective

d.          Pre-post intervention

1.          Researchers developed a new measure of resilience. They administered it twice to a sample of 700 primary school students from some of Adelaide’s lower socio-economic suburbs. The first time (T1) was when the students were in grade 3; the second time (T2) was when they were in grade 11. They found that at T1 the new measure correlated positively with a measure of dispositional perseverance, negatively with a measure of learned helplessness, and was not at all related to a measure of aesthetic values. They also found that student’s scores on the new measure correlated at .80 between T1 and T2. Finally, they found that the vast majority of participants who scored high on the new measure of resilience tended to give up when they got a bad mark at school. We would therefore conclude that the new measure…

How likely is it that Little Albert, Watson’s experimental subject, went through life afraid of Santa Claus? Describe what could have happened to prevent his continual dread of Santa. 

Misty Mayer, works as the receptionist in a private hospital. She is known to be a friendly, well-balanced and optimistic person with diverse hobbies and good interpersonal relations. However, since a month ago Misty has succumbed to severe depression, without any change in her work and life circumstances. The psychiatrist prescribes an antidepressant to better regulate her mood and her sleeping patterns. A deficit in which neurotransmitter may be the cause of Misty’s depression?

You hear your phone ring, see the caller name on the screen and recognize that it is your friend calling with whom you had a fight yesterday. You still feel angry and decide not to answer the phone. This process of hearing and seeing information, ascribing meaning to the information and acting accordingly, is a description of which anatomical process or function?

What enables the nervous system to receive and send information throughout the body?

n African IWO psychology ______ suggests that we should look beyond social relevance of our science and consider collateral financial and other benefits for IWO psychology.

Which Industry 4.0 human competency describes the ability to effectively manage interactions with digital solutions