A man explains his cheating on his income taxes by saying, "Everyone does it, and besides the government steals from me every week" is using the defense mechanism of ______
a. rationalization c. reaction formation
b. projection d. identification
A
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Your family is discussing autism because a neighbor was recently diagnosed as suffering from ASD. Most of the members of the family say they are not surprised, because autism occurs in better-educated families. You recognize that this is not true, so you
tell your family that their false correlation is a result of a referral bias. They look at you with puzzlement and ask you to explain. What do you say? a. Better educated families with autistic children tend to demand more of therapists. b. Better educated families are more likely to seek diagnosis and treatment for their children at specialty clinics. c. These families tend to blame themselves for their child's autism and often are the source of media reports on autism. d. These families tend to be sought out by researchers seeking individuals to study in research on autism.
"Hypothesis generator" describes the learner in which of the following ways?
a. domain specific ongoing mastery b. characterized by intentionality c. invents rules and discovers concepts d. biological constraints and predispositions
_____ reliability is the extent to which an assessment technique yields similar results across different administrators.
A. Test-retest B. Interrater C. Internal D. Clinical
In experiments, random assignment is used to avoid __________
a) selection bias. b) the placebo effect. c) experimenter bias. d) the dependent variable effect.