Michelle finds a significant correlation between fear of success and general anxiety in her senior thesis. Based on this, she should conclude that _____
a. fear of success causes the level of general anxiety
b. fear of success does not cause the level of general anxiety
c. general anxiety causes fear of success
d. general anxiety and fear of success are related
D
No causal conclusions can be drawn from significant correlations. That includes conclusions that one variable does NOT cause the other as well as conclusions that one variable DOES cause the other.
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When making judgments about the personalities of other people, children are biased toward __________.
A. accepting negative behavior as an indicator of the person's personality B. accepting positive behavior as an indicator of the person's personality C. viewing other people more positively than they view themselves D. viewing other people more negatively than they view themselves
At a career fair, you stop by Dr. Ibanez's booth to talk about her career. Her professional interests include how to best assess people's abilities, skills, beliefs, and personality traits. You guess that Dr. Ibanez specializes in:
A. physiological psychology B. psychometrics C. counseling psychology D. developmental psychology
Describe interoceptive sensitivity
What will be an ideal response?
Whether a person believes that the consequences of his or her actions are determined by
person variables or by environmental variables is the heart of __________ view of personality. a. Mischel's b. Bandura's c. Zuckerman's d. Rotter's e. Eysenck's