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56. As a research psychologist, Michael is interested in studying self-defeating behavior. He engages in a number of methods to find out the causes of this behavior. What type of analysis is designed to uncover the causes of psychological phenomena methodically?
  1. root cause analysis
  2. marginal analysis
  3. stroop effect examination
  4. IAT
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57. Introspection, as a cognitive exercise, is an important method of gaining information. What does introspection mean?
  1. a process of examining one’s thoughts and ideas
  2. a method of guessing the internal motivation of a patient
  3. a process of retrieving long term memory in the brain
  4. a method of examining learned information
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58. Lawyers for a convicted thief want the court to overthrow his past conviction based on the prosecutor’s questioning of witnesses. In one instance, the prosecutor referred to the defendant as the ‘thief’ when questioning an elderly witness. What kind of memory bias is involved in this case?
  1. leading questions
  2. crooked prosecutors
  3. gross negligence effect
  4. misinformation effect
  5. Sarbanes-Oxley
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59. Cathy’s research in the cognitive science laboratory shows that when participants are asked to think of word synonyms while completing a physical task, their speed reduced by 2-4 seconds. What is this an example of?
  1. limited attention
  2. dispositional bias
  3. limited capacity
  4. conceptual misunderstanding
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60.
Which psychologist defined the structural model of the psyche: ego, superego, and id?
  1. Erik Erikson
  2. Carl Jung
  3. Anna Freud
  4. Sigmund Freud
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