Which method is best for measuring the validity of criminal profilers?
a. Compare profilers' accuracy to that of other people who had the same information.
b. Ask police investigators how often they found profilers' advice to be helpful.
c. See how many cases were solved after receiving advice from profilers.
d. Determine the percentage of statements by profilers that turn out to be correct.
a
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An expert chess player and an average player view a chessboard briefly and then try to remember the placement of pieces. What happens? a. The expert remembers better only if the pieces are arranged as in a normal game. b. The expert remembers better, regardless of how the pieces are arranged. c. Both remember equally well at first, but the expert remembers longer
d. The average player remembers better, regardless of how the pieces are arranged.
The "Little Albert" study has been successfully replicated.?
a. True b. False
Galileo challenged ____ as a way of knowing by conducting experimentation
a. empiricism b. authority c. parsimony d. blindsight
In Rogers' view, the need for positive regard is:
a. present only in a few people b. perhaps innate or learned c. learned d. biologically based