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Chapter 11

1. To ask how a child or person from another country might view an event is an example of trying to bring a fresh perspective to a problem. This is an example of __________.
        
2. You are interested in the relationship between gender role identification and self-esteem. In your research you have found that many authors refer to a 1990 article by Sandra Bem. After reading this article, a good next step in your literature search is to search __________.
        
3. Terms such as "inoculation against stress" and "mental illness" are examples of:
        
4. Duane Rumbaugh noticed that while most primates could learn object discriminations quite easily in his lab, gibbons and other tree-dwelling primates had great difficulty doing so. This led to a series of experiments which were conducted in order to __________.
        
5. The text recommends that you find out all you can about your topic using two approaches; one is a literature search and the other is __________.
        
6. __________ is a subset of PsycINFO covering the journal, book, and chapter literature available on CD-ROM.
        
7. PsycLIT is to PsycINFO as __________.
        
8. Being open to the full range of possible interpretations of one's observations increases a scientist's chances of arriving at valid understanding. Which of the following scientists refers to this as entertaining multiple hypotheses?
        
9. The next step after getting references on your topic from PsycLIT is to __________.
        
10. Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) cites:
        
11. Hullian learning theory postulated that behavior potential was a direct function of habit strength and drive strength. This led a student to deduce that if he increased drive, that behavior potential would increase. This hypothesis was generated through __________.
        
12. An advantage in a literature search of finding a review article is __________.