Reactivity refers to the
a. effects of personal judgment on observers' ratings.
b. tendency for observers to rate less severity over time.
c. tendency for a person to change her behavior when she knows she is being observed.
d. tendency for a person to reveal less in a structured interview than on a questionnaire.
Answer: c.
You might also like to view...
Three-year-old Celeste cries and tries to cling to her mother when her mother leaves the house. When Celeste's mother returns and tries to give Celeste a hug, Celeste pushes her away and yells, "Bad mommy!" Celeste's attachment to her mother would be described as
A. avoidant. B. ambivalent. C. disorganized. D. secure.
In some countries, children are expected to leave home when they reach the end of adolescence and start their own lives
In other countries, children are expected to stay in their parents' home until such time as they get married, and sometimes even after that. These differences reflect: a) universal law. b) cultural specificity. c) ethnographic truths. d) experimental correlation.
It has been suggested that biofeedback relieves the pain of tension headaches because it "teaches people to relax," but it is more likely that
A. the patients whose pain is seemingly relieved by biofeedback are probably also taking aspirin or Tylenol. B. the biofeedback training gives patients a sense of control over their headache pain. C. biofeedback has a "numbing effect" because it affects the nerve endings in the somatic nervous system. D. patients experience a placebo effect, because the headache pain returns once the biofeedback sessions are completed.
The z test does not depend on the shape of the sampling distribution of
Indicate whether the statement is true or false