Researchers have found that despite the number of color names in a language, the basic abilities to perceive color are unchanged. This finding would be troublesome for the theory of _____
A) Piccard and Worf
B) Sapir and Whorf
C) Skinner and Watson
D) Tolman and Thorndike
Answer: B
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An executive's chair has begun to wobble because a screw has gotten a little loose, so he calls the maintenance department. His inability to realize that a dime from his pocket could also be used as a screwdriver is an example of
a. the availability heuristic. b. functional fixedness. c. inductive reasoning. d. the belief-bias effect.
Valentina is engaged in naturalistic observation. In which of these projects is she MOST likely engaged?
a. asking a sample of college students a set of questions about their tendency to become angry in different situations b. studying the social behaviors of an autistic boy c. observing interactions between subordinates and their supervisors in a large corporate office d. examining crime statistics from the Department of Justice to see if the rate of property crimes is related to the rate of violent crimes
When presented with "The Porcupine and the Moles" story, the boys in Gilligan's study tended to use an ethic of
a. justice. b. caring. c. common sense. d. divergency.
In the context of scale development, construct means
a. A way of building a measurement instrument b. To develop a scale c. To test the psychometric properties of a scale d. A concept of interest