Which of the following scenarios would be the LEAST likely to happen?
A) Eight-year-old Cynthia does very well in her math classes.
B) Eighteen-year-old Tia scored 20 points higher on the math section of her SATs than her friend Peter.
C) Seven-year-old Francessca is much better at writing than her friend Ralph.
D) Fifteen-year-old Isabelle has little interest in her math classes.
B) Eighteen-year-old Tia scored 20 points higher on the math section of her SATs than her friend Peter. Gender differences favoring boys appear at adolescence and increase during high school, but only in areas involving mathematics problem solving. Since the late 1970s boys have consistently scored about 10% higher than girls on the math portion of the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT).
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Janice comments on the texture of the brush strokes in a painting. She does not notice the complexity of the visual image. Janice is probably relying on information provided by her:
A. thalamus B. cones C. visual association areas D. primary visual cortex
To study the effectiveness of a new anti-anxiety drug, researchers randomly assign equally anxious people to two groups, one getting Drug X and the other getting no drug. The researchers mistakenly conclude that Drug X works because people in the drug group show fewer signs of anxiety than the others. What is the mistake? a. They never introduced an independent variable
b. They did not create a placebo control group. c. They never did a pretest of anxiety symptoms. d. They did not operationally define what the experimental group was.
Which of the following is an example of projection?
a. A man is angry with his wife, so he yells at his employee. b. A man denies that he is angry with his wife. c. A man is angry with his wife, but says that she is the one who is angry. d. A man makes up excuses for why he is angry with his wife.
The goal of Ellis's REBT is to
a) understand the causes of pathological behavior. b) remove the symptoms of pathological behavior. c) free individuals to develop their own constructive belief systems. d) help individuals to live according to social and cultural norms.