Juju's economics professor tells the class that the next exam will cover chapters 8 through 10 of their text. The day of the exam, the professor accidentally photocopies the exam from the previous semester, which includes a number of questions from chapters 7 and 11 . In this case, the students might reasonably argue that the exam:
a. has poor construct validity
b. lacks reliability
c. has been improperly standardized
d. has poor content validity
D
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a. to demonstrate that women and men are even more similar in their physical health than they are in their mental health. b. to dismiss the myth that physicians treat women differently than men, because gender bias no longer occurs. c. to discuss the kind of health problems that women are most likely to experience. d. to point out that most of women's psychological problems can be traced to physical illnesses.
Suppose you are interested in how participants perform under different temperature conditions. You randomly select 30 participants and randomly assign them to work in one of three rooms. The rooms differ only with respect to temperature. You instruct all participants to solve the same jigsaw puzzle, and then you measure how long it takes each one to finish. This research is an example of
a. a correlational study. c. an experimental study. b. population measurement. d. the use of descriptive statistics.
Who conducted the "obedience study" in which an authority figure commanded participants to violate their ethical standards?
a. Solomon Asch b. Stanley Milgram c. Philip Zimbardo d. Muzafer Sherif
Several studies have shown that there is a correlation between watching __________ and __________
A) violent television; aggressive behavior B) violent television; violent crime C) nonviolent television; stereotyping D0 racist television; violent behavior