What provides us with a standard against which we can compare individual test scores?

a. z scores
b. Norms
c. Percentiles
d. Descriptive statistics


b. Norms

Psychology

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During a recent trip to the shopping mall, someone working for the mall asked you to fill out a survey on shopping habits. As a student of psychology, what concerns might you have about this survey?

A. wording of the questions B. confounded causes C. placebo effect D. correlation versus cause-and-effect relationships

Psychology

Officer Taylor is a 20-year veteran of the police department. If he is typical of male police officers, his traits would include:

A. diplomacy B. sympathy C. assertiveness D. compassion

Psychology

Females often judge themselves as unable to live up to the standards embodied in an ______________ society like ours

Fill in the blank(s) with correct word

Psychology

An Ancient Roman physician would be most likely to diagnosis a patient with a melancholy (depressed) personality as:

A) having experienced some psychological trauma as a child. B) an imbalance in the bodily fluids known as humors. C) caused by physical trauma to the head. D) having inherited the trait from his or her parents.

Psychology