The cross-cultural validation of personality measures requires psychometric evidence from all cultures in which the test is to be used
a) True
b) False
a
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There is currently a long history of fighting between the Israelis and the Palestinians, and many attempts to resolve this conflict have failed. According to the __________ theory, the prejudice and discrimination that exists between the two groups will continue to rise as the conflict over limited land in Israel goes on.
A. realistic conflict B. social diffusion C. prosocial inhibition D. genesis of bias
In a 1940 study, Wayne and Marsena Dennis reported on the motor development of Native American Hopi children, who spent their first year strapped to a cradleboard. What where their findings?
A. The Hopi children experienced severe motor deficits that persisted into adulthood. B. When compared with children from other tribes, Hopi children lacked gross motor skills but excelled in fine motor skills. C. Despite being denied a full year of locomotion experience, Hopi children shortly caught up to other children in terms of walking. D. Because they had to work harder to learn to walk, as adolescents, the Hopi children had superior athleticiscm compared with adolescents from other tribes.
Suppose you want to find out if using cell phones while driving a car affects the likelihood of having an accident. One's familiarity with the car used in the experiment would be a(n) __________variable
a. independent b. control c. extraneous d. dependent
The Yerkes-Dodson Law suggests that for simple tasks, _________ levels of arousal are associated with optimum performance
a. moderate b. low c. greater d. varying