Loftus found that eyewitness reports are influenced by the words used to ask about the event. In one experiment, she found that use of the word "smashed" produced higher estimates of car speed than use of the word____________
a. struck
b. banged
c. crashed
d. hit
D
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Gershoff's (2002) meta-analysis of over 36,000 participants indicates a positive correlation between corporal punishment and other factors. Which factor was not shown to have a positive correlation?
a. aggression as a child b. aggression as an adult c. adult criminal behavior d. improved academic performance
Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of creative people?
a. Creative people seek fame and success. b. Creative people have a wide range of knowledge and interests. c. Creative people use broad categories, break mental sets, and find order in chaos. d. Creative people experience more unusual states of consciousness, such as vivid dreams and mystical experiences.
Children of pidgin speakers
a. transform the language of their parents into a true language, often in a single generation. b. acquire that language from their parents. c. build upon the language of their parents by adding slang, just as children of all languages do. d. acquire the dominant language the pidgin was first based upon
Spearman created the concept of _____, an individual’s general intelligence or global, overall intellectual ability.
A. fluid intelligence B. g C. crystallized intelligence D. s