Suppose that you are planning to conduct a study to look at the effect of pet ownership on empathy, but that you cannot find any good measures of empathy (all of the measures that you find seem to fall short of your understanding of what empathy is, or to miss the mark completely). Unless you can find a measure that you are satisfied with, your research may end up being low in ____
a. internal validity
b. external validity
c. construct validity of the cause
d. construct validity of the effect
D
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A(n) _____ psychologist would BEST explain why humans are born with _____ brains.
A) clinical; underdeveloped B) evolutionary; underdeveloped C) cognitive; myelinated D) existential; myelinated
Studies with 9-month-old infants who could crawl suggest that independent locomotion is associated with ____ early in life
a. greater socialization c. less interest in people than in objects b. less maternal attachment d. better and more flexible memory
What term did Carl Rogers use to describe accepting people for what they are, not for what others would like them to be?
a) conditional esteem b) unconditional esteem c) conditional positive regard d) unconditional positive regard
In Piaget's theory, children in the preoperational stage lack an understanding of reversibility
Indicate whether the statement is true or false