How did psychologists determine which items to include on the MMPI?
What will be an ideal response?
They started with a long list of possible true-false items and asked various types of people to answer them. Then they identified all the items that, on average, people with certain disorders answered differently from other people. Each of those items became part of the scale to measure that personality disorder.
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Explain what a correlation coefficient measures, and provide examples of what different kinds of coefficients indicate.
What will be an ideal response?
A clinical psychologist treating a woman with obesity says, "Obesity is associated with depressed mood, although we are not clear whether depression is the cause or the effect. What is clear is that sexual abuse is a causal factor in obesity." Research indicates that these remarks are ____
a. entirely false. Research fails to support either assertion. b. partially true. Research rejects the association with depression but supports the idea that sexual abuse causes obesity. c. partially true. Research supports the association with depression but rejects the idea that sexual abuse directly causes obesity. d. entirely true. Research supports both assertions.
The discipline representing a hybrid of cognitive psychology and the neurosciences is called ____.?
a. ?cognitive neuropsychology b. ?cognitive neuroscience c. ?neuro-cognitive psychology d. ?neuro-psychological science e. ?None of the choices are correct.
The four major types of stress described in your textbook are
a. pressure, anxiety, environment, and social demands. b. frustration, anger, pressure, and change. c. frustration, internal conflict, pressure, and change. d. internal conflict, pressure, anxiety, and social demands.