A group of psychologists is interested in evaluating the diagnosis of hyperactivity, so they ask parents and teachers to use questionnaires and make observations to assess the presence of the symptoms. What are they likely
to find?
a) Parents and teachers tend to agree on the presence of the symptoms.
b) Parents tend to see more aggressiveness in the children than teachers
see.
c) There will be limited agreement across evaluators and methods of
assessment.
d) Agreement is much higher for behavioral observations by teachers than
for parents' behavioral observations.
c
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a. ?restricted affect b. ?excessive emotionality and tears c. ?weight fluctuation d. ?hypersexuality
Setting goals beyond or lower than your abilities is an example of poor planning.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
In one procedure designed to produce spoonerisms, participants are asked to silently read lists of word pairs that are models for the sound structure of target spoonerisms, then pronounce word pairs out loud. Such studies have found that
a. spoonerisms with idioms are almost impossible to produce. b. spoonerisms are more likely when the error still results in real words. c. errors in blending idioms are more common when the idioms do not share the same underlying meaning. d. there is no relationship between errors and production of real words.
A pigeon pecks a lighted disk on the wall of a test chamber and receives food after the peck. Research has confirmed that, in this example of the operant procedure, the longer the delay between the response and the eliciting stimulus,
a. the weaker the operant response.
b. the weaker the elicited response.
c. the stronger the operant response.
d. the stronger the elicited response.
e. unlike the classical procedure, delay makes no difference to the strength of the response.