Identify the statement that has been underscored by research on secondary school and campus shootings.
A. In high school contexts, date rape and hazing are often the cause behind aggression.
B. Official records today reflect reality more closely as much of aggression is reported.
C. "Zero tolerance" policies are often effective in identifying individuals liable to be aggressive.
D. Most of those who make implied or direct threats will not go on to commit serious violence.
Answer: D
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a. It has high reliability. b. It has low reliability. c. It has high validity. d. It has low validity.
Psychologist Albert Bandura believes that children learn aggression through
a. classical conditioning. b. insight learning. c. observing and imitating models. d. latent learning. e. none of these; Bandura believes that aggression is an inborn quality.
In their critique of the use of verbal reports as a source of data about the cognitive processes involved in a variety of different tasks, Nisbett and Wilson (1977) argued that
a. People are often unable to given accurate reports of the factors which have influenced their behaviors. b. Retrospective accounts by the participants of the ways in which they performed a task may provide valuable insights into the processes involved in doing the task. c. Verbal reports are an accurate source of information about the factors involved in our behaviors, decisions, and emotions. d. People have direct, introspective access to their cognitive processes.
One reason that public policies safeguarding children are slow to emerge in the United States is because
A) such government policies have failed in other Western countries. B) social programs are rarely cost-effective. C) children cannot vote or speak out to protect their own interests. D) the United States already ranks at the top on key measures of children's health and well-being.