When people report the presence or absence of a stimulus, they make correct judgments, misses, and false alarms. Which field deals with analyzing their answers?

a. Opponent-process theory
b. The Young-Helmholtz theory
c. Gestalt theory
d. Signal-detection theory

d

Psychology

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Why do the results of Zimbardo's prison study not lead to a firm conclusion?

a. Many failures to replicate b. Influence of demand characteristics c. Lack of random assignment d. Too many independent variables

Psychology

Regarding language, which of the following statements is FALSE?

a. Morphemes consist of simple words, as well as prefixes and suffixes. b. In English, phonemes correspond to individual letters, as well as letter combinations. c. Phonemes combine to form syntax. d. Changing one phoneme in a word can change the meaning of the word. e. Different languages have different phonemes.

Psychology