Your textbook described a study in which attractiveness of job applicants was manipulated in order to determine its effect on judgments of job applicants. In that study, what was the criterion for selecting the photographs to use for the study? It was the _____ the people who judged the attractiveness of the people in the photographs

a. group average of c. inter-rater agreement between
b. majority choice of d. unanimous decision of


C
Raters had to agree on which category the photographs belonged to (highly attractive, moderately attractive, r highly unattractive). This is one type of inter-rater agreement.

Psychology

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According to Ivan Pavlov's ideas on classical conditioning, extinction occurs when a conditioned stimulus is no longer presented with

a. a negative reinforcer. b. a conditioned response. c. an unconditioned response. d. an unconditioned stimulus.

Psychology

Many theorists believe that behaviorism and social learning theory __________

A) overemphasize the plasticity of cognitive development B) overestimate people’s contributions to their own development C) offer too narrow a view of important environmental influences D) overemphasize each individual’s unique life history

Psychology

Henry Wellman believes that adults' theory of mind is based on

a. belief-desire reasoning. c. intentional agents. b. identity status approach. d. their private selves.

Psychology

What is the name of the statistical measure used to evaluate the extent to which two factors are related or correlated?

What will be an ideal response?

Psychology