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?

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?

The nurse is taking care of a diabetic patient. When the nurse enters their room to administer their lispro insulin the patient appears anxious and states that they are shaky and dizzy. What should the nurse do first?

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:

The nurse has an order to administer IV insulin. Which of the following regarding administration of IV insulin is true?

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 stimulus is:

A patient has been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. Which of the following about type 2 diabetes is false?

Olivia is a psychologist working with a baseball training company. She is interested in the most efficient way to teach players three types of pitch: curveball, slider, changeup. She randomly divides the players into two groups. She asks the two groups to practice in different ways during each 1-hour practice session: Group 1: 20 minutes in a row of curveballs, then 20 minutes in a row of sliders, then 20 minutes in a row of changeupsGroup 2: On each pitch during the hour session they pick one of the three pitches at random to throw, with the constraint that they can’t pick the same pitch more than twice in a row. After 5 sessions of practice, she then measures how accurately each player can throw each of the three pitches. 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 emotions would be considered negative in valence and low in arousal?