A study in which members of a group of people are tested at several different points across an extended period of time is using a __________________ design.

Claude, a Baptist teenager, reads a flawed study showing that Baptists are smarter than most people. Then he reads a second study with similar flaws proposing that Baptists are poor leaders. What would you predict will happen? a. He would overlook the flaws in the first study and dismiss the findings of the second study. b. He would now believe that Baptists are poor leaders

c. He would now believe that Baptists are both smarter and poor leaders. d. He would dismiss the findings of the first study and overlook the flaws in the second study.

A child must acquire several types of knowledge about language. One kind is called the pragmatics of language, which refers to

a. the basic units of sound. b. principles of when to say what and how to say it. c. the basic meaningful units; i.e., words, past-tense markers, and plural markers. d. the meaning of words and sentences.

If a diagnosis of a psychological disorder is valid, then we should be able to predict the course of the disorder. This is called

a. predictive reliability. c. truth in diagnosis. b. predictive validity. d. none of these.

The most important factor in the majority of the cases where DNA evidence led to the overturning of a unjust conviction of an innocent person was

A) false confessions. B) faulty eyewitness identification. C) the use of jailhouse snitches. D) the use of "junk" science.