Which of the following is a weakness of self-report measures?
a. They are difficult to use with behaviors that are rare or that typically occur in private settings.
b. They may be invalid because they cannot sample behavior as it occurs naturally.
c. They may be invalid because structured settings distort the behavior.
d. They may be invalid because children answer incorrectly due to forgetting or response bias.
d
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Suppose that on your college campus Building A is east of Building B, but they aren't exactly in a straight row; one is 15 feet north of the other. The students' cognitive maps show them in a straight row, however. A likely explanation for this effect is
a. the rotation heuristic. b. the meta-analysis technique. c. the 90-degree-angle heuristic. d. the alignment heuristic.
Joe Kool has attended college for eight years, but he has no degree. Joe changed his major 20 times. He's calm; his identity status is
a. foreclosed. b. identity diffused. c. identity achieved. d. in moratorium.
At a basic level, when deciding whether a sample is representative of a particular population, we
a. make the decision based on intuition. b. are also deciding whether the population is the one we should be testing. c. decide against low-probability events in favor of high-probability events. d. go for the long shot and decide against high-probability events.