Which is most accurate, the retrospective or the momentary reports?
What will be an ideal response?
One study (Stone et al., 1998) that compared reports of retrospective coping with those of momentary coping found that the retrospective approach under-reported cognitive coping strategies and over-reported behavioral coping strategies relative to the information collected using momentary coping data. Which then is most accurate, the retrospective or the momentary reports? That's not entirely clear since even the study's researchers noted that participants making momentary reports may also forget or omit information. For example, since the participants had to report information repeatedly, they may have thought they had already reported particular coping strategies that they in fact had not reported. Further, they may have focused on more concrete well-defined stress-related problems in their momentary reports rather than larger more abstract problems that become more apparent across longer time spans. Thus, the momentary reports may not be as sensitive a measure for collecting information on how people cope with more abstract stress-related problems as retrospective checklists.
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a. do not share a circadian rhythm of activity b. both have little capacity for aggressiveness c. share a circadian rhythm of activity d. are dissimilar in all respects
If these lines, _______________, were seen as one long line, this would be an example of the Gestalt principle of
A) proximity. B) closure. C) continuity. D) symmetry.
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a. She has no reason to be worried, very few males have midlife crises. b. She has reason to be worried, most males have midlife crises. c. She has no reason to be worried, females are much more likely to have midlife crises. d. She has reason to be worried, married men are much more likely to have a midlife crisis.
Students who do better in high school tend to do better in college. This is an example of a correlation
a. negative b. zero c. positive d. perfect