PSYC 350 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Magical Thinking, Conduct Disorder, Eye Tracking

The word ‘abnormal’ (and the notion of abnormality) is a point of contention and controversy in psychology and in society more broadly. What do you think about the use of this word? Is it always problematic?

37. Sarah discovers that reading her text over the course of several evenings prior to a test in her chemistry class is a very effective study strategy. She decides to try the same tactic in preparing for her psychology exam. Her study behavior has A) been put under control of a discriminative stimulus B) been extinguished C) generalized D) been classically conditioned E) been produced as a result of learning through observation

7) Being an informed psychology student that you are, when you read in a magazine that a correlational study has shown that there is a high correlation between eating meat and having cancer. Should you then stop eating meat?