Which of the following would represent an indirect influence of a grandparent on a
grandchild?
A) The grandparent's "parenting" style.
B) The grandparent's attitudes and beliefs about grandparenting.
C) Helping out the grandchild's financially troubled parents.
D) Teaching the grandchild how to build a model airplane.
C
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The extent to which the psychological aspects of a research setting are meaningful or feel real to participants is called ______.
A. internal validity B. mundane realism C. experimental realism D. external validity
While watching a baseball game at recess one day, 10-year-old Kevin wonders to himself "Am I as good of a player as those kids are?" This most likely illustrates the concept of
A) social comparison. B) parentification. C) prosocial reasoning. D) psychological evaluation.
The degrees of freedom in an experiment with 30 participants in each group, matched for socioeconomic status, is
a) 29 b) 58. c) 30. d) 60.
Rosenthal and Jacobson conducted a study in an elementary school where they misinformed teachers about the intellectual potential of randomly selected students. They found that students identified as ‘growth spurters'
actually performed significantly better on an intellectual test at the end of the school year even though the selection of these students was random. Which of the following is the best possible explanation for this finding? a. The randomly selected students were actually smarter. b. The randomly selected students had smarter parents. c. The teacher's expectations of the ‘growth spurters' potential served as a self-fulfilling prophecy. d. Either the randomly selected students were actually smarter or they had smarter parents.