People in a hidden population might be more willing to participate in a study if recruited by somebody they know and trust rather than by a researcher. This fact forms the basis of the development of
a. respondent-driven sampling.
b. snowball sampling.
c. targeted sampling.
d. key informant sampling
a
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A psychologist gets people's scores on many tests of intellectual performance and determines the correlations among them. It appears she is probably testing which of these theories?
a. The Flynn effect b. Spearman's g factor c. The role of genetics in intelligence d. Chomsky's language acquisition device
In comparing African American women with white American women, which statement is accurate?
a. Fewer African American women tend to be satisfied with their body size, weight, and appearance than are white women. b. More African American women than white American women appear to have bulimia. c. African American women are just as likely as other groups of women to have binge-eating disorder. d. African American women are more concerned about weight than any other group of women.
Piaget called the knowledge that an object continues to exist even after it has been removed from view:
a. existential constancy c. item memory b. substance constancy d. object permanence
__________ psychology addresses the full spectrum of human behavior, both the commonplace and the exceptional:
a. Popular b. Scientific c. Medical d. Maladaptive