What are the three reasons your book listed for why you should be interested in research?
What will be an ideal response?
• answer questions and make decisions
• we encounter research everyday
• common sense is often wrong
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Polly believes that feminist goals can be best achieved by passing laws to guarantee women equal educational and workplace opportunities. Polly represents which approach to feminism?
a. cultural feminism b. liberal feminism c. radical feminism d. women-of-color feminism
Children who are depressed tend to interpret failures as
a. undeserved. b. internal and stable. c. external and stable. d. situational and easily overcome.
Research indicates that middle school students who attend ethnically diverse schools feel safer and less lonely than students who attend more ethnically homogenous schools. Which of the following explanations may account for this feeling of safety?
Greater diversity helps to develop greater peer acceptance. Students who attend ethnically diverse schools are more likely to join gangs. Schools that are more ethnically diverse typically receive more government funding and can provide better security for students. Students who attend ethnically diverse schools feel that they can blame their own shortcomings on the prejudices of others.
Serial killers are typically psychotic individuals
Indicate whether the statement is true or false