The psychological disorder is marked by the pursuit of extreme thinness and extreme weight loss.
A. anorexia nervosa
B. bulimia nervosa
C. binge-eating disorder
D. eating-purging disorder
A. anorexia nervosa
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According to the research on the post-event misinformation effect,
a. people are remarkably resistant to new, inconsistent information. b. a question containing incorrect information can alter people's recall of the original event. c. misleading information influences recall for children, but not for adults. d. these new memories created by post-event information are more vivid than memories created by real events.
What cutoff in DSM-IV-TR separates normal weights from those that suggest the presence of anorexia nervosa?
a) 90% of normal weight b) 85% of normal weight c) 50% loss of bone density d) 75% loss of bone density
Shawn claims that he multitasks very effectively, and also says that he actually performs better while multitasking than when doing a single task. You ask Shawn to test this claiShawn reads a newspaper article while listening to a baseball game, and then reads another article in silence. Based on research on multitasking, when you time Shawn's reading speed and test his comprehension, you are likely to find that his reading is
a. faster but less accurate when listening to the game. b. slower but more accurate when listening to the game. c. both slower and less accurate when listening to the game. d. both faster and more accurate when listening to the game, just as he claimed it would be
For the t ratio, the larger the difference between the sample mean and the population mean (other things being equal), the greater the likelihood of
a. rejecting Ho b. failing to reject Ho c. sampling error d. committing the standard error