Everyone experiences occasional shyness and social anxiety, but the person with a social phobia has intense reactions of fear. What are some of the common social phobias?

What will be an ideal response?


Answer: A good answer will include the following key points.
? Fear of eating in a restaurant.
? Fear of speaking in front of a group or crowd.
? Fear of having to perform for an audience.

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Lisa is administering her questionnaire to a large group of very diverse college students. What steps should she take when writing her questions?

A) Use unbiased language. B) Avoid loaded questions. C) Ease into sensitive questions. D) All of the above.

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Research on the stability of temperament indicates that it is

a. unstable and subject to wide variations over the course of a lifetime. b. unstable during childhood but stabilizes during adolescence and remains stable throughout a person's adult life. c. relatively stable through the first three to four years of life but begins to vary dramatically once a child reaches school age. d. relatively stable well into adulthood. e. completely unpredictable from person to person

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Which of the following are a type of inferential statistic?

a. medians b. tests of significance c. arithmetic means d. standard deviations

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