Butler, Leitenberg and Fuselier (1993) have found that including a psychologist in a hostage negotiation team resulted in
A. fewer injuries and deaths to hostages.
B. more peaceful surrenders by the hostage takers.
C. both A and B
D. none of the above
C
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How did the Renaissance humanists want religion to change?
a. They wanted a wider range of religions to be acceptable in society. b. They wanted religious institutions to have more power in society. c. They wanted science to make religion obsolete for educated people. d. They wanted religion to be more personal and less formal.
Which statement correctly identifies a similarity between a correlational study and the differential research design? a. Both demonstrate differences among groups between groups
b. Both use one of the two variables to create groups of participants. c. Both involve two groups with one score for each participant. d. Both demonstrate the existence of a relationship between two variables.
Which of the following interventions to help people with life-threatening illnesses has its roots in existential-humanistic psychology?
A) Aversive conditioning therapy B) Psychotherapy C) Antibiotic therapy D) Support groups E) Systematic desensitization
Costa and McCrae are factor analytic personality theorists who
a) originated the Five-Factor Model of personality but have since abandoned it as discredited. b) have conducted research that supports the use of the Five-Factor Model as a clinical diagnostic tool. c) have not yet conducted research on the applicability of the Five-Factor Model in non-English-speaking cultures. d) suggested that the Five-Factor Model is not stable when used to assess maturational changes in personality across the life span.