Ms. Carter is examining peer popularity in a second-grade classroom. She has explained to the class that she wants them to write down the names of the five students they like the best and the five students they like the least in their class. Ms
Carter is most likely using the
A) friendship inventory.
B) social selection method.
C) peer status procedure.
D) peer nomination technique.
D) peer nomination technique. The peer nomination technique is a polling technique used to identify categories of popular and unpopular children.
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While functionalism emphasizes the adaptive purpose of ____, evolutionary psychology emphasizes the adaptive purpose of ____
a. physical structures of the body; behavior b. behavior; consciousness c. consciousness; behavior d. consciousness; physical structures of the body
For doctors and nurses, too much empathy can be
a. essential to effective job performance. b. a risk factor for depression. c. a result of clinical training. d. a way to retain one's humanity.
The structure that connects the two hemispheres of the cerebral cortex is the
a. corpus callosum b. pineal gland c. pons d. reticular formation
Data from comparison groups that permit the score of an individual to be assessed relative
to the scores of his or her peers are called a. correlations. b. comparison scores. c. control scores. d. norms. e. criterion scores.