Professor Everdine is interested in devising a scale to examine people's perception of saltiness. She asks participants to rate solutions with various amounts of salt dissolved in them on a scale from 0 (not salty at all) to 100 (extremely salty). This method is known as ______.
A. limit testing
B. magnitude estimation
C. signal detection
D. threshold evaluation
Answer: B
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a. Liking between individual members causes cohesion, rather than cohesion causing liking between members. b. Groups that engage in positive, enjoyable activities tend to become cohesive. c. A group, to become cohesion, must sometimes ostracize the least-liked members. d. Highly stratified groups are more cohesive than groups with reciprocal, overlapping attraction patterns. e. The presence of subgroups, or cliques, within a group tends to increase the group’s overall cohesiveness.
Which of the following theories suggests that people in urbanized, industrialized societies are used to seeing things that are rectangular in shape and unconsciously come to expect things to have squared corners?
a) Carpentered world theory b) Rectangular perception theory c) Right angle perception theory d) Front-horizontal theory
Clinicians must often overcome the language barrier if one exists. An interpreter with a background in should be used if necessary
a. forensics b. psychopathology c. mental health d. computerized dictation
A person who desires sexual activity but does not become sexually excited is suffering from a(n) __________ disorder
a. desire b. arousal c. orgasm d. sexual pain