Which one of the following would be most likely to establish that a test is grounded in psychological theory?
a. The correlation between test score and external criteria
b. The correlation between the test scores of the same people at two different points in time
c. A high coefficient alpha from a test of internal consistency
d. Evidence of validity based on the test’s relationship with other constructs
d. Evidence of validity based on the test’s relationship with other constructs
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The studies of egocentrism and visual perspective taking by Flavell and by Moll and colleagues revealed that contrary to Piaget's data from the three-mountain problem, children __________.
A. as young as 3 understand perspective confronting-how an object looks to another person when the child is presented a conflicting view of the object (e.g., an object that looks green to the child and blue to another person) B. as young as 3 develop level 2 perspective taking, which means they understand that two people may see the same things differently (e.g., a picture sitting on the table between the child and another person might look upside down to the other person) C. do not develop level 1 perspective taking until age 4, which means they understand that other people may not see the same things they see (e.g., an object the child can see might be blocked or obscured for a viewer at another angle) D. understand level 1 and level 2 perspective taking as well as a third skill, perspective confronting, by about age 4½
Adrianna was skiing when she fell and hit her head. When the operators of the ski resort ask her what she was doing just before she fell, she really can't remember. Adrianna's memory loss is consistent with
a. cryptomnesia. b. retrograde amnesia. c. anterograde amnesia. d. pseudoforgetting.
It would be most accurate to say that the results of deindividuation are ___
a. almost always negative b. almost always positive c. somewhat violent d. somewhat erratic
Attribution theories are concerned with:
a. implicit cognitions underlying prejudiced attitudes b. the processes that determine attitudes toward objects c. explicit cognitions underlying prejudiced attitudes d. the processes that underlie inferences of cause and effect