An advocate’s personal credibility:
a. Influences the degree to which others will listen to them.
b. Influences their ability to tell ethical untruths.
c. Influences their dependence on political relationships.
d. Influences their likelihood to complain about certain policies.
ANS: A
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a. this procedure is as effective as randomly assigning participants from the start b. this procedure eliminates local history as a confounding factor c. this procedure, however, may introduce a regression-artifact phenomenon whenextreme scores are frequently needed to match d. this procedure, however, confounds the research even more than the preexisting differences
7 Religious preference has never been a factor in Supreme Court appointments
a. true b. false
Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
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In asking why colonialism did not handicap Asian states as much as states in other regions (like Latin America, the Middle East, and Africa), the identity perspective would most likely point to which of the following factors?
a. Asia was farther away from Western states. b. Asia (especially Taiwan and South Korea) benefited more from American support during the Cold War. c. Asia is more central to commerce and shipping. d. Asia has a more unified regional culture (based on Confucianism).