Svetlana just heard that her neighbor, Bart, was involved in an automobile accident at a nearby intersection. If Svetlana concludes that Bart's children distracted him, and this caused the accident, she has made:
a. an internal attribution
b. a self-serving attribution
c. an external attribution
d. an attributional error
C
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A) negative; positive B) positive; negative C) emotional; problem-solving D) problem-solving; emotional
A student wants to determine, once and for all, whether girls and boys differ in overall intelligence. He intends to give intelligence tests to 500 boys and 500 girls. Although the study is approved by the Institutional Review Board,
one committee member writes the student a note with some good advice before he proceeds with the research. What might that advice be? a) The validity of intelligence tests does not justify their use in establishing sex differences. b) Most intelligence tests are designed so they balance out items on which males and females differ. c) Using tests to identify possible sex differences is a violation of federal law prohibiting discrimination. d) Questions raised about cultural bias should cause one to pause when considering such a use of intelligence
Define the concept of control group and explain why one is used in an experiment
What will be an ideal response?
"A persistent, irrational fear of a specific object, or situation ... that leads to a
compelling desire to avoid it" is coded by the DSM IV as a/an (a) specific phobia (b) panic disorder (c) neurotic stress disorder (d) irrational stress disorder (e) avoidance disorder