Wyatt v. Stickney (1972), a class action lawsuit filed on behalf of mental patients, addressed all of the following EXCEPT
a. adequate shower and toilet facilities.
b. treatment goals
c. staff-patient ratios.
d. methods of administering medication.
d
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According to psychologists, in humans, the vestibular sense is responsible for:
a. our ability to sense the position and movement of body parts b. our sense of balance and movement c. our ability to recognize objects using only our sense of touch d. activation of pain gates in the spinal cord
Which of the following is likely to be reported as a positive correlation?
a. salary and years of education c. studying and GPA b. age and incidence of illness d. all of these
Which of the following forensic psychologists is behaving most unethically in his/her work on witness preparation?
a. Dr. Hughes is telling a witness which facts of his testimony to emphasize and de-emphasize when he is on the stand. b. Dr. Leung is advising a witness on clothes, grooming and other appearance-related matters. c. Dr. Jackson is helping a witness organize the facts she wishes to present to make her testimony clearer to the court. d. Dr. Sabin is coaching a witness on how to respond if/when his credibility as a witness is threatened.
Ms. Honeywell is an elementary school teacher who maintains that in her thirty-five years of experience, boys just tend to do better at math than girls
Recently, she has read a number of studies that show that girls and boys actually have about the same level of math ability. Based on information about how teachers create and sustain self-fulfilling prophecies, what is Ms. Honeywell most likely to think about the study results? a. "Well, I guess everyone is wrong once in a while—maybe boys and girls are the same." b. "I don't buy it—three times as many boys as girls in my classes have excelled at math." c. "Come to think of it, I think girls may actually be better than boys." d. "Who cares, girls are better than boys at reading anyway—the differences even out."