Suppose you have done research and found that on average for children in middle schools the more times that they are sent to the principal's office for behavioral problems, the lower their grades. However, you are not sure whether the behavior problems are causing the bad grades or the bad grades are causing the behavioral problems. According to the text this dilemma is called the ____ problem
A) third variable
B) vice versa
C) Heisenberg
D) directionality
D
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The "biological process of thinking" would be best associated with a. neuroticism
b. the mechanics of intelligence. c. cultural influences. d. the pragmatics of intelligence.
A behaviourist's views on the person–situation controversy would be MOST similar to the views of:
A) Eysenck. B) Mischel. C) Allport. D) Freud.
George becomes frustrated with his date because she always wants to sit on his left side. When he tries to sit on her left side, he thinks she is ignoring him. Later, she explains that she cannot pay attention to voices coming from the left side of the room because she has ____
a. ?alexia b. ?simultanagnosia c. ?auditory agnosia d. ?hemineglect
The fact that many people who will not respond to suggestion when alone with a physician will do so in a group is called:
a. the Zeigarnik effect b. mesmerism c. the contagion effect d. animal magnetism