Duplicate questions are included and spaced far apart in questionnaires to detect:

A. social desirability.
B. extreme responding.
C. carelessness.
D. faking.


Answer: C

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An area of the brain that appears to be structurally different in musicians with perfect pitch is a. the planum temporale

b. the prefrontal cortex. c. the primary auditory cortex. d. the corpus callosum.

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A reasonable response to this, based on the explanation of evolutionary psychology presented by the authors of your text, is that a. evolutionary psychology simply can't explain social behavior. b. evolutionary psychology can only explain mating behaviors. c. evolution occurs very slowly, and thus genetic adaptations have not "caught up." d. we do have evidence for a racism gene, but it is unethical to tamper with the human genome.

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Preschool-age children's view of themselves reflects the way their culture views self. For example, many Asian societies tend to have __________

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