Loftus and Palmer (1974) manipulated the wording of questions posed to participants who witness a filmed traffic accident. Their findings suggest that
a. the wording affected the participants' memory for the accident.
b. the wording did not affect the participants' memory for the accident.
c. witnesses often store multiple, contradictory memories for a single event.
d. most eyewitness errors have to do with problems that arise during encoding.
a
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a. is not illegal. b. occurs in over 80% of American families. c. is a crime of violence. d. occurs in less than 1% of American homes.
Which of the following is true of Maslow's self-actualization theory?
a. It has been criticized for the use of a very small sample size for generalizing to the population at large. b. It declined in popularity in the 1960s. c. It is based on the belief that self-actualization is a learned behavior. d. It has little relevance in the field of developmental psychology and organizational behavior.
Wilcoxon rank-sum test is to _____ as Wilcoxon matched-pairs signed-ranks T test is to _____
a. ordinal data; nominal data b. interval data, ordinal data c. between-subject design; within-subjects design d. within-subjects design; between-subjects design
Dr. Hennepin is conducting a study on a new psychotherapy for depression. The depressed clients in his study are diverse, ranging greatly both in the presence of comorbid diagnoses and the severity of their depression; the therapists also are diverse, with different types of mental health training (clinical psychology, social work) and different levels of experience. Dr. Hennepin's study has a
high degree of external validity. What term is used for studies of this nature? a. a psychotherapy efficacy study b. a psychotherapy effectiveness study c. an analog treatment study d. a double-blind placebo trial