African Americans perform worse when they believe they are taking an intelligence test than when they think the test has some other purpose. This has been explained in terms of:
a. racial bias in test content
b. the Flynn Effect
c. the heritability of intelligence
d. stereotype threat
D
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Dr. Kang is investigating the mechanisms that underlie how humans learn and solve problems. She is using the ____ approach to investigate human intelligence
a. information-processing b. psychometric c. cognitive d. psychophysics
Marsha slumped down into her seat as her therapy session began. Her eyes are red, and it is obvious that she has been crying. When her Gestalt therapist asks her how she is doing, she replies, “Oh, I’m just fine.” Marsha’s therapist will most likely handle the discrepancy between Marsha’s behavior and her response by ____
a. ?showing Marsha a series of inkblots, hoping that the inkblots might provide insight as to why Marsha is upset b. ?modeling appropriate behavior that corresponds to the phrase, “Oh, I’m just fine.” c. ?pointing out the discrepancy to Marsha and not letting her change the topic until she honestly describes how she feels d. ?questioning Marsha about her past to see if she has ever been rewarded for masking her true feelings
The primary limitation of a two-group design is that it ____
a. is extremely difficult to interpret b. decreases the chances of demonstrating a significant mean difference c. tends to reduce the differences between the groups d. may not provide a complete picture of the relationship between the variables
Dropoff administration of a survey would be most likely done with a group whose members are likely to be
a. at the same place at the same time b. at the same place at different times c. located in several different places d. without fixed addresses