What does it mean to say that two behaviors are "functionally equivalent"?
A) They both involve interactions with the same group of people.
B) They both take the same amount of energy.
C) They are the exact same behavior occurring in different geographic locations.
D) They are different behaviors, but they have similar meanings.
D
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Which of the following is one of the greatest strengths of the social cognitive perspective of personality?
a. It recognizes that the five stages of psychosexual development can, in fact, be progressed through without fixation, struggle, or strife. b. It suggests that the genetic limitations with which we are born can be overcome. c. It offers hope to each human being that self-actualization is a reasonable and attainable goal. d. It offers strategies for a person to improve his or her own life, as it recognizes the importance of the individual in the construction of his or her own reality.
A hospital clinician contacts persons who had been discharged from the hospital 5 years earlier, to see if they were re-hospitalized during that period. What type of research study is represented by the clinician's work?
a) case study b) follow-up study c) longitudinal study d) correlational study
Pierre conducted a validation study, and he found that the test was only valid for French-speaking males. What kind of validity did he identify
A. between-group validity B. single-group validity C. differential validity D. among-groups validity
Percentiles always indicate
a. the percentage of cases falling below a given point b. the percentage of cases falling above a given point c. the percentage of cases falling between a given z score and the mean d. the percentage of cases falling above a given z score