Which of the following might help to explain the vast differences in the incidence of eating disorders among men and women?
a. The influence of behavioral genetics
b. The fact that boys are encouraged to play sports and girls to be active in social functions
c. The fact that puberty brings boys' bodies closer to the societal ideal and girls' bodies further from the societal ideal
d. The differences in the way boys and girls tend to gain weight from overeating
c
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_____ is often cited as the most influential of the baby biographers
a. G. Stanley Hall b. Charles Darwin c. Sigmund Freud d. Jean Piaget
Wendy repeated a previous experiment exactly. This is likely to decrease internal validity.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
Larrian has just started her new job as a college professor. She has bought a new professional wardrobe of tailored suits to wear. When she starts her job, she notices that almost all the professors are dressed more casually and are wearing "comfortable" shoes. The first few days she is teaching, she gets compliments on her wardrobe; but after a few weeks, she gets asked "if her feet hurt" or
"doesn't she get hot in the jacket.". Larrian soon finds that she is taking the jacket off and has now started wearing lower heeled shoes. Larrian most likely made this change due to a. cognitive dissonance. b. conformity. c. obedience. d. groupthink.
Most empirical studies of projective tests have found all of the following EXCEPT
a. they have poor reliability. b. they have low validity. c. they don't discriminate well between people with mental disorders and those without. d. scores seem especially sensitive to test takers' moods. e. test takers tend to refer to the therapist when they tell stories about the cards.