What are response sets?
a. Ways of responding that test takers find most comfortable
b. The four or five responses provided in a multiple choice question
c. Equipment, such as computers, used to respond to tests
d. Patterns of responding that result in false or misleading information
d. Patterns of responding that result in false or misleading information
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Describe the process that led psychologists from understanding the "risky shift" to understanding that same phenomenon as a more general "group polarization" process
What will be an ideal response?
J. B. Rhine tried to study ESP objectively. Many of his experiments made use of objects with five symbols printed on them (square, star, circle, wavy lines, and plus sign). These objects used in Rhine's experiments were
a. Rubrik's cubes. b. Rorschach cards. c. Zener cards. d. Geller's dice.
What percentage of people with profound intellectual disabilities are male?
A) 50% B) 60% C) 70% D) 80%
Nancy and Cliff had four children who did not have cystic fibrosis, but their fifth child was born with the disease. Cystic fibrosis is carried on a recessive gene. Given what you've learned in this chapter, how could this happen? a. It wasn't until the fifth child that both parents passed on the allele for this illness
b. Recessive genes normally skip a generation, but after the parents had five children, the gene was expressed. c. Their fifth child must have been a boy, which makes it more probable that he would have the illness. d. Their fifth child must have been a girl, which makes it more probable that she would have the illness.