Defining or explaining a psychological construct is referred to as ______.
A. construct validity
B. research that bears out a theory's predictions
C. calculating convergent validity
D. construct explication
Ans: D
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A) had a weaker emotional reaction to losses but not to wins. B) had a weaker emotional reaction to both wins and losses. C) had stronger emotional reactions to losses but not to wins. D) did not exhibit anticipatory emotional reactions as they gambled.
According to Piaget, the stage of cognitive development between two and seven years of age, in which the individual becomes able to use mental representations and language to describe,
remember, and reason about the world, though only in an egocentric fashion, is the __________ stage. a. concrete operations b. preoperational c. sensorimotor d. formal operations
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a. it is highly sensitive, though not to the same degree as the clitoris b. it is at least as sensitive the clitoris c. many women report that they have no sensitivity in this area d. there are very few nerve endings in the length, rendering it fairly insensitive