Because Kinsey's research participants were grouped from various organizations and communities, his sample was
A) a stratified random sample.
B) not embarrassed or uncomfortable.
C) not representative of the general population.
D) an accredited sample.
C
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A. Excitation transfer B. Cannon-Bard theory C. James-Lange theory D. Yerkes-Dodson theory
A new robot is able to examine a photograph of a crowd and pick out a figure wearing a wool cap in exactly 200 milliseconds. The time it takes to do this is always the same, whether there are 10 or 1,000 people in the crowd. The robot must be using __________ processing.
A. attentional B. parallel C. serial D. connectionist
A psychologist whose viewpoint is psychodynamic
a. focuses on self-image and self-actualization to explain behavior. b. believes behavior is directed by unconscious forces within one's personality. c. emphasizes the study of observable behavior. d. emphasizes subjective factors and personal growth.
When the Stanford-Binet was first used, the intelligence quotient could be determined by the
a. mental age being divided by the chronological age and multiplied by 100.
b. mental age being multiplied by the chronological age and divided by 100.
c. chronological age being divided by 100 and multiplied by the mental age.
d. chronological age being divided by the mental age and multiplied by 100.