Which of the following is a limitation of the clinical, or case study, method?
A) Investigators cannot assume that their conclusions apply, or generalize, to anyone other than the individual studied.
B) Information collected often lacks descriptive detail.
C) It does not provide evidence about the individual's current functioning.
D) It requires intensive study of participants' moment-by-moment behaviors.
A
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Howard's hippocampus was destroyed. When you meet Howard, you teach him to play tic-tac-toe (which he has never played before). When you return to see Howard the next day, which of the following is most likely occur? (Assume that you explain the rules of tick-tack-toe to Howard again regardless of whether he recognizes you or the game.)?
a. ?Howard won't recognize you, but would be able to play tic-tac-toe. b. ?Howard will recognize you, but won’t be able to play tic-tac-toe. c. ?Howard won’t recognize you and won’t be able to play tic-tac-toe. d. ?Howard will recognize you and will be able to play tic-tac-toe.
William James believed that different emotional experiences are the result of different:
A) expectancies about a situation. B) physiological responses. C) interpretations of the same physiological response. D) histories of reinforcement and punishment.
Trait theories are primarily explanatory views of personality
a. True b. False
If scores are normally distributed in the populations sampled, then _____
a. parametric tests are less likely to detect the effect of the independent variable b. nonparametric tests are more likely to result in Type I errors c. parametric and nonparametric tests are equally likely to detect the effect of an independent variable d. nonparametric tests are more likely to result in Type II errors