When you wish to understand a sentence, you must start with listening to the speech sounds that make up the words and phrases, decipher the meaning of each of the words and phrases, and eventually interpret the idea conveyed by the sentence. This is sometimes called a(n) ________.

Belinda sits down to take a psychology test and finds that it is a multiple-choice test. What type of thinking will be necessary for her to do well on the test?

Bea has just broken up with her boyfriend. She has a test in school on Friday, but try as she might, she cannot concentrate on her studies. In this example, Bea’s performance is being interfered with by an intense ________.

The Christensen-Guilford Test is a test of ________.

An admissions director for a college decides to keep the existing admissions policy since 80% of the students admitted eventually graduate. Unknown to her, 90 percent of the rejected applicants would also have been successful graduates. Her decision- making process is hampered by ________.

Reinforcement experienced by models that affects the willingness of others to perform the behavior they learned by observing those models is called ________ reinforcement.

After an accident in which she suffers a brain injury, Ellen is unable to recall new emotional experiences, even though her emotional memories of events prior to the accident are intact. She has most likely suffered damage to her ________.

Which of the following is considered a sign of abuse?

Which of the following violates a resident’s legal right to privacy?

Battery is a legal term that means