A researcher studies the impact of stress on college students' exam scores. Whether the results of this study help us to understand the relationship between stress and work performance in real-life institutions is a question of
a. internal validity
b. study confounds.
c. external validity.
d. the original research hypothesis.
c
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Which of the following is true of research conducted on cultural calibration of how emotional expressions are perceived by individuals?
a) There are insignificant cultural differences in absolute recognition of facial expressions. b) Individualistic cultures are better at recognizing negative emotions than are collectivistic cultures. c) Collectivism is associated with higher recognition rates for some facial expressions. d) Collectivism is associated with greater intensity ratings for some facial expressions.
A goodness-of-fit test is used with
a. a contingency table. b. normally distributed variables. c. a one-way categorization. d. a test of linearity.
Gosling (1998) arranged for human observers to observe a group of spotted hyenas and to assess the personalities of each hyena. He did NOT find evidence of:
A) agreeableness. B) conscientiousness. C) neuroticism. D) openness to experience.
High normal testosterone levels a. are not related to delinquent behavior
b. do not predict a male's level of aggression. c. are negatively correlated with male aggression d. are positively correlated with male aggression.