Suppose that Danielle was an eyewitness to a store robbery. She gives the police a description of the criminal: "30-35 year-old male, brown hair, light eyes, about 5'10", with a missing finger on his left hand." A few weeks later, police track down a suspect. He fits Danielle's description, and additionally has a lazy eye and a huge tattoo on his neck. If police use the match-to-suspect approach
in constructing a lineup for eyewitness identification, then the foils in the lineup ____.
a. may or may not have brown hair
b. will definitely have brown hair, but may or may not be missing fingers
c. will definitely have brown hair and missing fingers, but may or may not have a tattoo
d. will definitely have brown hair, missing fingers, and a tattoo
D
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Hartshorne and May's "doctrine of specificity" states that
a. each child has unique personal traits or interests. b. specific peers trigger particular actions in a child. c. the child's moral actions differ across situations. d. level of honesty is a stable personality trait.
Little Neil is frustrated and is threatening to throttle his baby sister. His mother intervenes, and suggests that Neil "get over it" by taking a dozen eggs and smashing them against the tree in the front yard. Neil's mother appears to be a proponent of _______ as a means of reducing aggression.
A) catharsis B) repression C) projection D) displacement E) frustration-aggression theory
Which of the following statements is true?
A. Biological therapies have been shown to be remarkably effective. B. Mental disorders should never be equated to medical disease because we lose sight of the humanity of the patient. C. The effectiveness of biological therapies has declined due to ineffective medications. D. Biological therapies have lost significance after the cognitive revolution.
In longitudinal follow-ups of thousands of births, babies born 1 to 2 weeks early ________.
A. showed lower reading and math scores in third grade than children who experienced a full-length prenatal period B. had higher rates of illness than children who were born 4 to 6 weeks early C. had high rates of cognitive problems in infancy but required fewer medical procedures than other children D. showed some differences that were fully explainable by differences in SES and maternal age