The items that Binet included on his test were based on the
a. educational tasks taught at the various grade levels in the schools of that time.
b. tasks that an average child could perform at each age level.
c. opinions of psychologists during that time period.
d. updating of items from earlier group IQ tests and creativity tests.
B
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In studies of cross cultural application of formal operations, it has been shown that:
a. formal operations are strictly a Westernized concept. b. students who attend school through adolescence are the only ones who will understand formal operations. c. if a child is going to understand formal operations, they must be shown how to apply them. d. children who are given tasks that require them to think through their answers and apply changes they deem fit, are using formal operations.
The shifting of repressed motives and emotions from an original object to a substitute object is known as ________
a. denial b. aggression c. projection d. displacement
_________ validity is generally seen as the most important means of establishing construct validity
a. Criterion b. Discriminant c. Face d. Convergent
Kerri believes that people who eat at McDonald's are overweight, so she decides to do a naturalistic observation of people eating at McDonald's. What should most concern us about Kerri's observations?
A. the observer effect B. the bystander effect C. observer bias D. subject bias