What is factor analysis?
a. A method of ranking individuals by their intelligence
b. A statistical procedure that is used to identify which sets of psychological measures are highly correlated with each other
c. The technique of choice for testing fluid intelligence
d. The technique of choice for testing crystallized intelligence
Answer: B
Rationale: Individuals' scores from different measures of vocabulary, reading comprehension, and verbal reasoning might correlate enough to reveal an underlying "language ability" factor.
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a. was introduced by Wechsler in 1939. b. was introduced prior to the development of the Wechsler-Bellevue. c. was found to be more applicable to adults than to children. d. was found to be more applicable to children than to adults.
Steve turned to the people around him for help in deciding how to act at a local protest. According to perception control theory, what form of perception control is Steve using?
A) independent instruction B) interdependent instruction C) organizational instruction D) interactional instruction
Karl Lashley suggested that
A. location of a lesion was the best predictor of learned performance. B. the size of a lesion was the best predictor of learned performance. C. size and location of a lesion were equally correlated with learned performance. D. neither the size nor the location of a lesion was correlated with learned performance.
The _____ is heavily involved in the learning of fear responses
a) hypothalamus b) amygdala c) thalamus d) pons