Consider the following item on a questionnaire in which the subject is to circle the best answer: "I feel confident when I walk into a crowded party: TRUE FALSE CAN'T SAY."
This type of a self-report measure would be considered a(n) __________ item.
a. physiological
b. closed-ended
c. reaction time
d. open-ended
b
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If your therapist tends to focus on issues of death, freedom, isolation, and meaninglessness, he or she would probably be classified as a(n) __________ therapist
a. psychodynamic b. existential c. Gestalt d. client-centered
A condition in which the patient is unable to recognize the faces of familiar people is known as a. astigmatism
b. prosopagnosia. c. presbyopia. d. hyperopia.
In general, phenomenology refers to any methodology that studies:?
a. ?how to reduce conscious experience to its component parts b. ?conscious experience as it occurs without attempting to reduce it to its component parts c. ?how the human experience is linked to non-human animals d. ?the inheritance of human traits involved in determining behavior
In a study on how marijuana affects creativity, the people who took the marijuana performed no more creatively than those who took a placebo. Both groups performed more creatively than a group that received no drugs at all
What conclusions can BEST be drawn from these findings? a. Marijuana enhances creativity. b. The group receiving the placebo was more creative to begin with than the group receiving the marijuana. c. Neither marijuana nor the placebo seem to have any effect on creativity. d. The creative effects of marijuana are probably due to people's beliefs that it will increase their creativity.