Shelley wants her grandma to keep in touch through e-mail but her grandma says, "Oh, Shelley, you know that you can't teach an old dog new tricks!" If Shelley has been studying the problems with popular beliefs about psychological phenomena, how should sh

What will be an ideal response?


A good answer will include the following key points.
• Popular beliefs and sayings have often been refuted by scientific research.
• Before accepting a popular proverb as true, it would be important to look at empirical evidence.
• Many popular proverbs contradict each other because they are not based on empirical evidence.

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Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

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If a middle-school-age child employs conscious, intentionally used tactics to improve cognitive processing, this is called use of

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Desiring and having sex with children or child molesting is referred to as a disorder

a. voyeuristic b. pedophilic c. fetishistic d. transvestic

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