Suppose you develop a scale of measurement for your preferences on music, such that you give country music a rating of 10 on an open-ended scale, and classical music (which you are neutral about) you give a rating of zero. Since you like pop music twice as much as you like country music, you give it a number twice as large, a rating of 20 . Since you dislike Rap music, you give it a rating of
–10, to show that you dislike Rap music as much as you like country music. This scale of measurement would be
a. nominal
b. ordinal
c. interval
d. ratio
d
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Which of the following statements concerning psychiatrists is FALSE?
a. Psychiatrists specialize in the diagnosis and treatment of psychological disorders. b. Psychiatrists typically devote less of their time to relatively serious disorders than clinical psychologists. c. Psychiatrists frequently emphasize biomedical therapy. d. Psychiatrists are physicians and have a medical degree.
Which of the following is probably most useful in studies in which extreme scores sometimes occur but have no real practical significance?
a. mean b. median c. average d. none of the above
Participants in the Wason selection task, often only affirm the positive version of the propositional rule. This is a demonstration of what heuristic?
a. confirmation bias b. illusory correlation c. availability d. representativeness
Researchers can measure gender identity during __________ because self-concepts begin to emphasize psychological dispositions over concrete behaviors
A) toddlerhood B) early childhood C) middle childhood D) adolescence