Psychologist Claude Steele compared participants from minority groups with participants from non-minority groups and found that in some cases, the minorities performed less well than others, but not in others
The variable of what group a participant came from is a
a. task variable.
b. quantitative variable.
c. factorial variable.
d. measured variable.
d
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a. ?Noah, age 28, who has been married for 4 years b. ?James, age 37, who has not married c. ?Michael, age 42, who is now divorced d. ?Jacob, age 40, who has remarried after his divorce
Which problem solving strategy breaks the overall problem down into separate parts?
a. forming ill-defined goals c. forming secondary problems b. forming subgoals d. forming heuristics
Twin studies and adoption studies are methods to discover the role of __________ factors in the development of psychological disorders
a. cognitive c. psychodynamic b. behavioral d. biological
Carrie was slowly moving a little teddy bear back and forth across her son's visual field. Instead of following the bear with his eyes, he made several small, jerky movements to catch up to the bear as it moved. Carrie's son has not yet developed the ability
a. to saccade. c. of vergence. b. of visual accommodation. d. of smooth visual pursuit.