In some countries, children are expected to leave home when they reach the end of adolescence and start their own lives. In other countries, children are expected to stay in their parents' home until such time as they get married, and sometimes even after that. These differences reflect __________.
A. universal law
B. cultural specificity
C. ethnographic truths
D. experimental correlation
Answer: B
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a. Personality b. Ability c. Drug d. Agility
According to Fromm, people who conform to what society deems to be normal behavior are
A. the most well-adjusted. B. the happiest. C. trying to escape from the perception of powerlessness. D. probably struggling with an identity crisis.
When creating an operational definition, care should be taken to ____
a. maximize face validity, even if at the costs of other types of validity b. avoid leaving out important components of the construct c. improve reliability by including components that are not part of the construct d. measure just one aspect of the construct, leaving the others for later
A group of researchers wanted to determine whether animals would be slower in learning a maze when they had been exposed to a particular drug. Half the animals received low doses of the drug, and the other half did not receive the drug. The researchers then counted how many times the animals had to run through the maze before they learned it. In this study, the independent variable is:
a. the amount of drug each animal is given (low dose or none) b. the type of animal the researcher selects for the study c. the number of trials it takes for each animal to learn the maze d. the age of the animals selected