The Psychology Department created a career day to introduce students to the various specialties of the discipline. One of the invited guests is a forensic psychologist
When she is asked to give a brief description of what she might do in a typical day, what might she tell the students?
a) "One of my tasks is designing questionnaires to measure attitudes and product knowledge for computer equipment."
b) "For a company plagued with low morale, I meet with managers to collect information to be used in designing an intervention program."
c) "A law firm asked me to help select a jury in a civil trial and to serve as an expert witness on the topic of eyewitness testimony in a criminal trial."
d) "The local stadium has been having trouble with people running onto the field and the manager asked me to develop behavioral techniques to deal with the problem."
ANS: c
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a. situational b. dispositional c. personal d. cognitive e. internal
Research on juror comprehension of a judge's instructions suggests that
a. jurors have little difficulty understanding judicial instructions b. jurors understand judicial instructions but do not recall them accurately later c. asking jurors to rewrite judicial instructions results in substantially greater comprehension d. many jurors do not comprehend the instructions they are given
According to Erikson, if infant Ulonda's mother is responsive and sensitive to her needs, Ulonda will develop the virtue of
A. justice. B. faith. C. will D. hope.
Totality of nonhereditary, or experiential, influences on development is referred to as
A. the scaffold. B. the mesosystem. C. the microsystem. D. the environment.