The tendency for the presence of a weapon to draw attention and impair a witness's ability to identify a culprit is called the
a. weapon-focus effect.
b. distraction effect.
c. inattention phenomenon.
d. CSI effect.
a
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Research on the reliability of diagnoses using unstructured interviews
a. has not yet been conducted. b. has supported the use of unstructured interviews. c. has not supported the use of unstructured interviews. d. has focused primarily on unstructured interviews for the personality disorders.
Although rumors have circulated on the Internet that some immunizations may actually cause harm to children, for example by triggering autism, scientific studies have found ____
a. a link to ADHD b. no basis for these claims c. a link to boys d. a link to girls
Which of the following prenatal stages of development includes the brain nearly doubling in size with growth and development?
a. Germinal b. Embryonic c. Fetal d. Full-term
According to Smith (1995), the study of grandparenting presentsunique challenges and
can be more difficult than the study of parenting, because a. there are more varieties of grandparents than parents. b. one studies three generations instead of two. c. historical and generational aspects play a greater role. d. all of the above