When you discover a likely cause of an event, you tend to ignore other possible causes. This is known as the
a. endowment effect
b. correspondence bias
c. lack of integrative complexity
d. discounting principle
e. relativity principle
Ans: d
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The gate-control theory suggests that incoming pain sensations may be blocked at the
a. location of the injury. b. spinal cord. c. thalamus. d. cortex.
In the context of procedures used to establish linguistic equivalence, which of the following is an accurate description of back translation?
a) It involves several bilingual informants collectively translating a research protocol into a target language. b) It involves taking a research protocol in one language, translating it into the target language, and having someone else translate it back to the original. c) It is a procedure used to establish sampling equivalence. d) It is a procedure that involves several bilingual informants debating the various forms, words, and phrases to be used while translating a research protocol to a target language.
Because situational variables can affect test scores, testing requires
a. standardized conditions. b. at least two test administrators. c. a test administrator and an observer. d. test administrators with similar backgrounds and characteristics.
The main limitation of physiological measures is that
a. responses to such measures are easy to fake. b. they cannot be used to assess emotional reactions. c. it is not always clear what is being assessed. d. they cannot be used to study infants.