Zeppo created a new rating scale designed to measure people's liking for plums. On this scale, the psychological distance implied by a single-unit difference on the rating scale remains constant across the entire range of the rating scale. This means, for example, that the difference in subjective liking between a 3 and a 4 on Zeppo's scale is the same as the difference in subjective liking
between a 6 and a 7 . Zeppo's scale makes use of:
A) a Likert format
B) a Thurstone gradient
C) equal appearing intervals
D) all of these
C
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a. Openness to experience b. Extraversion c. Conscientiousness d. Agreeableness
Philip Shaw and colleagues in 2006 demonstrated that the brains of highly intelligent children, as compared to the brains of children with average intelligence, have a
A. thinner cortex at age 19. B. thicker frontal cortex at age seven. C. thinner cortex at age nine. D. thicker frontal cortex at mid-adolescence.
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.
a) case study
b) naturalistic observation
c) cross-sectional
d) longitudinal
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A) Anorexia nervosa B) Bulimia nervosa C) Binge-eating disorder D) Major depression