When comparing children to adults, an important confound that you must consider is:
a. mortality.
b. selection-maturation interaction.
c. statistical regression.
d. maturation.
B
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a. the representativeness heuristic b. the availability heuristic c. the anchoring and adjustment heuristic d. information overload
Charlene is currently 30 years old. Her IQ was tested when she was 15, and it was 100 . If Charlene has her IQ tested again she would likely find that her current IQ score
a. is close to 200, nearly double her previous score: b. is close to 50, about half her previous score c. has little relation to her previous score, because IQ scores don't stabilize until early adulthood d. is similar to her previous score of 100
A key disadvantage to self-report measures is that
A) demand characteristics can bias participants answers. B) observing behavior leads to changes in behavior. C) respondents are not always honest in their answers. D) they are less effective than experiments in accurately predicting peoples' behavior.
Children in group care often have been victims of neglect and abuse. Many can be helped and placed with their own or other families, but about __________ percent of them will spend their childhood years in group care
a) 10 b) 15 c) 20 d) 25