You are tutoring a high school student in chemistry and geog…

You are tutoring a high school student in chemistry and geography. The student wants to study one subject each day. For example, you would work on chemistry on Mondays and Wednesdays while studying geography on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Because you took a psychology course, you know that this isn’t a very good way to study. Instead, what should you suggest?

Elizabeth is at a party. Elizabeth sees her friend Betsy acr…

Elizabeth is at a party. Elizabeth sees her friend Betsy across the room. Betsy is screaming at another woman at the party. At one point, Betsy looks like she is going to physically strike the other woman, but instead she turns away and storms out of the party. Elizabeth knows Betsy really well and has literally never seen her be anything other than kind, gentle, and reasonably socially withdrawn. She’s certainly never seen Betsy yell at anyone else. Elizabeth is likely to make a ______ attribution about Betsy’s behavior. In making that attribution she is using _______ information based upon her previous experiences with Betsy.

Shauna is a researcher interested in the development of inte…

Shauna is a researcher interested in the development of intelligence and language. She brings 100 children into the lab. She gives the children a vocabulary test (i.e., tests how many words they know) and an intelligence test. When she plots her data, she sees the following graph: What type of relationship does Shauna’s data show?