When you took your college entrance exam, students across the country took the same test at the same time with the same instructions. What characteristic of a good psychological test do these similarities reflect?
A. reliability
B. standardization
C. validity
D. norms
Answer: B
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_____ is the tendency to accept what seem to be contradictions in thought or beliefs
a) Convergent thinking b) Dialectical thinking c) Design thinking d) Causal thinking
According to your text, one of the people who had the greatest impact on the developing field of social psychology was not a psychologist. Who was this person?
a. Plato b. Charles Lindbergh c. Adolf Hitler d. Jackie Robinson
Casey is eight years old. He has finally learned to dress himself in the mornings and is learning to play softball with his older brother. However, he does not seem to be able to learn how to read or perform simple mathematic operations. Casey is best described as having
a. profound disability b. severe disability c. moderate disability d. mild disability e. non-functional disability
Women may perform worse on math tests when they believe they are taking a test that men tend to do better on than women. This is an example of:
a. sex bias in test content b. the Flynn Effect c. the heritability of intelligence d. stereotype threat