Halo effects are most likely to be caused by
a. reliance on implicit personality theories.
b. the tendency to perceive women as having a nurturing role.
c. biases in the graphology process.
d. the use of structured interviews in personnel selection.
a
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a. To keep the difficulty level about the same b. To keep most scores close to the mean c. To make the test as brief as possible d. To prevent the copyright of the test from expiring
The biological perspective on somatic symptom disorder emphasizes which difference in these patients?
a. They perceive mild body changes more acutely. b. They have experienced more stress in early childhood. c. They are unable to learn from punishment. d. They are exposed to parents who model how to act sick.
Which type of research design investigates change that occurs among different groups of participants?
A. within-participants design B. posttest-only control group design C. pretest-posttest control group design D. between-participants design
Regarding color weakness, which of the following statements is FALSE?
a. A color weakness, involving yellow and blue is rarer than a color weakness involving red and green. b. More Asian, African, and Native American males than Caucasian males have red-green color weakness. c. Less than one percent of women have a red-green color weakness. d. People who have a red-green color weakness see reds and greens as the same color, usually a yellowish-brown.