What is a benefit of the Wechsler intelligence tests, compared to Raven's Progressive Matrices?
a. The Wechsler tests identify someone's strengths and weaknesses.
b. The Wechsler tests can be administered and interpreted by someone with no training.
c. The Wechsler tests are fairer to people from other cultures or languages.
d. The Wechsler tests relate intellectual skills to particular brain areas.
a
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Paul Meehl has suggested that when clinicians mistakenly pay attention to vague, superficial, or stereotyped statements by clients, and fail to pay to attention to subtler but more important evidence, they are victims of the cognitive error he has labeled
a. cognitive dissonance effect. b. unreliability bias. c. Barnum effect. d. diagnostic fallibility crisis.
______ shows the "tail" of the distribution is on the low end of the scale.
A. Negative skew B. Leptokurtic kurtosis C. Platykurtic kurtosis D. Positive skew
Recent research indicates that newborns have a natural attraction for tracking
A. a moving face. B. all face-like stimuli. C. only the faces of their biological mothers. D. faces of certain types of animals (e.g., dogs, cats).
_______________, according to personality researchers, is an important trait that is not included among the Big Five
a. Religiosity b. Suspicion c. Carelessness d. Neuroticism