A test is said to accurately assess specific psychological and personality traits, psychological concepts, attributes, and theoretical characteristics. This assessment is likely to have good _______
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
Ans: construct validity.
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People living under stressful conditions tend to get sick more often than they otherwise would. How do researchers in psychoneuroimmunology explain this phenomenon?
A. The stress response reduces immune system functioning, thus making us more vulnerable to diseases. B. The stress response in the long run leads to a lowering of the heart rate, which makes the heart inefficient. C. The stress response makes muscles stronger, which places a greater burden on the heart and respiratory systems. D. The body tends to adapt to the constant call for the stress response, and thus future immune responses are not as strong as before.
Dr. Quillan is measuring the point at which an infant can no longer differentiate between a striped-patterned stimulus and a gray square. Dr. Quillan is probably attempting to measure the infant's a. depth perception
b. retinal disparity. c. visual acuity. d. ability to perceive different pitches.
One reason that popular children are more skillful in implementing several steps of the information-processing model of competent social interaction is that they
a. engage a peer group without regard for the consequences of that interaction. b. are better able to encode and decipher social information correctly. c. are more aggressive than rejected children when it comes to interjecting their own focus to a peer group. d. never retaliate against aggressors.
_____ occurs when information already stored in memory gets in the way of recalling newer information
a) Proactive interference b) Anterograde interference c) Retroactive amnesia d) Proactive amnesia