Dr. Kanakis develops a brief structured interview to assess for the various eating disorders. To evaluate the interview, Dr. Kanakis sets up a study where one graduate student interviews an introductory psychology student while another is observing the interview behind a one-way mirror. Both graduate students score the interview. They repeat this process for 25 students, and then their scores are
compared to observe the extent to which they agree on the presence or absence of each diagnosis. What, specifically, is being assessed in this study?
a. concurrent reliability
b. interrater reliability
c. concurrent validity
d. interrater validity
B
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Suppose that you are feeling a positive emotion such as "relief" (e.g., you thought your wallet had been stolen, but realized it wasn't) or "joy" (e.g., you just heard that your older sister had a baby). Would it be possible for that emotion to be converted into another emotion via excitation transfer?
a. No, once a full-blown emotion has "registered," it cannot be converted into another emotion. b. Yes, although typically (once a positive emotion has already been "registered") it could only be converted into another positive emotion. c. Yes, although typically (once a positive emotion has already been "registered") it could only be converted into a negative emotion. d. Yes, it could be converted into another positive emotion or (just as easily) into a negative emotion.
Which of the following is a focus of the psychodynamic theory?
A) The role of psychodrama as a therapeutic tool B) The concept of reward and punishment C) The far-reaching effects of childhood events on personality D) The idea that group dynamics have therapeutic effects
How does the juvenile justice system differ from the adult system? What affects judges' decisions to transfer a juvenile to criminal court for prosecution?
What will be an ideal response?
The research design that allows researchers to answer causal questions about manipulated and measured variables is a(n) ______.
a. experiment b. quasi-experiment c. case study d. correlational study