Nikki has just completed college and has joined as a trainee at a design firm. She lives with her mother and is trying to save money. She feels that she has overcome adolescence but has not yet fully attained adulthood. In the context of the characteristics of emerging adulthood theorized by Jeffrey Arnett, Nikki is _____

A change in a stimulus or the addition of a stimulus in order to get the behavior to occur is called a ____________ prompt

a. behavioral b. stimulus c. response d. antecedent

An industrial-organizational psychologist has been asked to identify the ways in which high-stress and low-stress game designers are different. The psychologist comes up with the tentative explanation that the degree of control over one's work determines the designer's stress level. This tentative explanation, which must be tested, would constitute which step in the scientific method?

a. theory building b. operationally defining the problem c. proposing a hypothesis d. gathering evidence through observations