If practice of experimental tasks leads to an increase in performance by participants, ____ are said to have occurred
a. carryover effects
b. order effects
c. time-related effects
d. counterbalancing effects
B
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Jay participates in an experiment where he and three other participants are asked to judge the quality of a series of sculptures. Jay is least likely to exhibit informational influence if
a. each sculpture is shown for only a few seconds. b. he is motivated to be very accurate in his judgments. c. there are no objective criteria by which to make such judgments. d. there is a clear and unambiguous response for each sculpture.
How does the Einstein example in your text illustrate a drawback of the statistical deviance approach to defining abnormality?
a. Deviance is always a disorder b. The measurement accuracy is limited c. Too many people have high intelligence d. Statistical deviance from the norm is not necessarily a disorder
_____ believed that intelligence is a single general ability, whereas _____ believed that people do not have a single general ability called intelligence, but instead have several primary mental abilities.
A) Charles Spearman; Louis Thurstone B) Alfred Benet; John Carroll C) Lewis Terman; Alfred Binet D) Louis Thurstone; William Stern
Before he goes to the supermarket, Stanley imagines the items that he needs by thinking about them in their various locations in the store. That way he can get everything he needs in one area before moving on to the next. Stanley is using a mnemonic called
A. verbal organization. B. anagrams. C. the pegword technique. D. the method of loci.