Imagine you are a psychologist trying to uncover the causes of schizophrenia. How would you approach this question from the perspective of a psychological detective?
What will be an ideal response?
*To answer this or any other question from the perspective of a psychological detective, there are four guidelines which should be followed:
(1) What is the statement or claim, and who is making it?
(2) Is the statement or claim based on scientific observations?
(3) What do statistics reveal?
(4) Are there plausible alternative explanations for the statement or claim?
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Which of the following questions would a social psychologist be MOST likely to ask?
a. How stable is personality over the lifespan? b. Why do we like some people and not others? c. What effect does anxiety have on test performance? d. Do depressed people think differently than non-depressed people?
Which of the following is NOT a stage in the model of ethnic identity development?
a. Unexamined ethnic identity b. Ethnic identity search c. Ethnic identity foreclosure d. Achieved ethnic identity
Which female is most likely to have an eating disorder?
a. Maciel, an Australian b. Belinda, a Columbian c. Audrey, an Asian d. Doreen, a Bolivian
A step-by-step learned procedure for solving a problem is called a(n)
A) schema. B) cognitive map. C) heuristic. D) algorithm.