Some psychological scales contain a series of ordered items arranged so that each item implies a stronger opinion than the item that preceded it. Researchers who use such scales do not average participants' responses to all of the items. Instead, they merely identify the strongest specific item each participant is willing to endorse. Which of the scales listed below has this property?
A) a Dimensional Rating Scale
B) a Smithson Scale
C) a Guttman Scale
D) an Ordinal Hierarchy Scale
C
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Which provides the best example of a social perspective-taking skill?
a. Understanding that the person across the table has beliefs in direct opposition to yours. b. Believing that your position on an issue is the most accurate. c. Realizing that an object hidden in one place may have been moved to another place. d. Deciding that the most moral decisions are ones in which you personally benefit.
Processes that reduce any discrepancies from the set point are known as ____
a. negative feedback b. positive feedback c. homeothermic d. thermostasis
The ______ is the product of the deviations from the mean for each measure, summed across all the participants in the study.
A. sum of squares B. Cohen's d C. sum of products D. standard deviation
Atypical antipsychotic drugs alleviate schizophrenia with fewer side effects than other drugs because they ____.
A. stimulate dopamine synapses instead of blocking them B. act at acetylcholine synapses instead of dopamine synapses C. have a greater effect on dopamine type D2 receptors D. more strongly antagonize serotonin type 5-HT2 receptors