To assess whether sexual sadism is influenced by watching sexually violent films, "normal" male participants are exposed to either violent or nonviolent sexual programs, and are then asked to complete a questionnaire assessing their attitudes toward women and their likelihood of engaging in violent behaviors with women. This kind of research is called a(n) ____
a. analogue study
b. correlational study
c. epidemiological study
d. single-subject design
a
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Correlations of which of the following are needed to compute heritability, nonshared environmental effects, and shared environmental effects for a trait?
a. identical twins raised together and fraternal twins raised together b. identical twins raised apart and fraternal twins raised apart c. identical twins raised together and two non-twin siblings raised together d. identical twins raised apart and two non-twin siblings raise together
One of the problems with the trichromatic theory of color
vision is that it cannot explain why negative afterimages (i.e., afterimages that appear in complementary colors) occur. The opponent process theory of color vision, however, neatly explains this phenomenon. Which principle of critical thinking does this remind us to consider? A) Falsifiability B) Occam's Razor C) Extraordinary claims D) Ruling out rival hypotheses
In pre-industrial Europe, children often spent the adolescent years away from their parents as apprentices or servants, in a custom known as
A) incest avoidance. B) life-cycle service. C) wander-years. D) distancing.
A child is receiving problem-solving skills training as a treatment for conduct disorder. You can be reasonably sure that:
A) stimulant drug (e.g., Ritalin) administration is recommended, but not required. B) the child is a preschooler. C) the child is female. D) the interventions used are cognitive behavioral.