Current functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) technology allows researchers to:
a. Diagnose most forms of mental illness.
b. Read a person's private thoughts at a distance.
c. Predict the likelihood of developing Alzheimer's disease.
d. Identify selected sentences that a person reads in a scanner.
Ans: D) Identify selected sentences that a person reads in a scanner.
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a. homosexuality b. transsexualism c. transvestic fetishism d. pseudohermaphroditism
What conclusion should be reached about the effectiveness of Head Start programs?
A. Head Start programs show few short-term gains for students, with benefits not recognizable until high school. B. Despite decades of research, no demonstrable gains have been demonstrated for Head Start programs. C. Across both short- and long-term periods, the evidence of benefits is mixed. D. Head Start programs show clear short-term benefits, and these become stronger through the middle school years.
Why is the Rorschach inkblot test classified as "projective"? a. Its results give valid predictions of how someone's personality will change. b. It is still being developed as a research project
c. It lets people project their personality onto ambiguous stimuli. d. It asks people to think about their projects and prospects for the future.
In the criterion-group strategy, the actual content or face validity
a. is tested through factor analytic techniques. b. is critical to test construction. c. is only taken into account for the criterion group. d. is of little importance.