Slick Lefty, a convicted criminal, is taking an objective test of personality. Slick Lefty wants to give the impression that he is ready for parole. What should the clinician, who is giving the test to Slick Lefty, remember about objective tests?
A. People can figure out how to give socially desirable answers.
B. They are not useful in identifying personality differences.
C. They have low reliability and validity.
D. They are difficult to administer.
Answer: A
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The Dani, an isolated tribe living in New Guinea, have only two words for colours, roughly corresponding to "light" and "dark." According to the linguistic relativity hypothesis, they should:
A) have developed more terms for colours. B) have more terms for sounds as a perceptual compensatory mechanism. C) make light and dark discriminations better than do those in other cultures. D) exhibit impairments in recognizing shades of colour.
People who are exposed repeatedly to unpleasant events over which they have no control may develop a passive resignation to the event. What is this condition called?
a) avoidance learning.
b) learned helplessness.
c) extinction.
d) cognitive dissonance.
Which statement is true about memory from infancy onward?
A. Recall memory is rarely used, whereas recognition memory is used heavily. B. Recognition memory is rarely used, whereas recall memory is used heavily. C. Recall memory comes more easily than recognition memory. D. Recognition memory comes more easily than recall memory.
To enhance the experimental realism in a study, it is important that the manipulations in a study ______.
A. are made obvious to participants B. are meaningful to participants C. are not noticed by participants D. have no effect on participants