Explain why just knowing the percent of correct items on a test can be misleading for understanding a participant's performance. How have psychologists dealt with these issues of interpretation?
What will be an ideal response?
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You attend a workshop on adolescent development. The speaker says that most adolescents have low self-esteem and we need to take drastic steps to boost their self-esteem. Was the speaker correct? Do most adolescents have low self-esteem?
A. No-60% have high self-esteem B. No-90% have high self-esteem C. Yes-15% have high self-esteem D. Yes-5% have high self-esteem
Kerr and his colleagues, in their studies of the Köhler effect, find that
a. individuals who discover they are the most inferior member of the group will expend greater effort to improve their performance. b. the productivity of the group declines as the group increases in size. c. when groups discover some of their members are incompetent, the more competent members work harder to make up for the weaker members. d. groups will remove the “weakest link” from their group to improve performance. e. the truth-wins rule usually applies.
In our stressful modern world,
a. the fight-or-flight automatic reaction is obsolete. b. stress can continue over time and leave one in a state of enduring physiological arousal. c. stress may continue but has little effect. d. we handle most stressors through our fight-or-flight response.
During adolescence, negative crisis resolution results in the continuance of a sense of:
a. ego despair b. role confusion c. guilt d. shame and doubt