Which of the following is the most effective means for reducing bias in an interview?
a. Matching interviewer and interviewee on race and gender
b. Using more open-ended questions
c. Focusing on more general rather than individuating information
d. Using a highly structured interview
d
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Suppose that you and a group of other students want to conduct a study on mental rotation, using photographs of human faces. You find that people take longer to rotate a mental image, as the size of the rotation increases
Which approach do your data support? a. the propositional approach b. the analog approach c. both the propositional approach and the analog approach d. neither the propositional nor the analog approach
Tuyet-Hoa hears voices in her head. These voices often tell her that she is a bad person and does not deserve to live. Tuyet-Hoa suffers from ____
a. auditory hallucinations b. somatic hallucinations c. nihilistic delusions d. thought insertion
Answer the following statements true (T) or false (F)
1. People who live in large cities are more likely to have GAD than are people who live in rural areas. 2. An obsession is a ritualistic behaviour designed to reduce anxiety. 3. Attempting to suppress an obsession may actually strengthen it. 4. In obsessive-compulsive disorder, the obsessive thoughts typically produce anxiety and the compulsive behaviours are performed to reduce it. 5. A person who lives through a terrifying and uncontrollable experience may develop posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), a disorder characterized by chronic physiological arousal, recurrent unwanted thoughts or images of the trauma, and avoidance of things that call the traumatic event to mind.
Children do better at tasks of analogical reasoning when
a. the analogies are applied to familiar objects. b. family pets are observed while reasoning analogically. c. punishments and rewards are given following wrong and right responses. d. training begins prenatally.