Even though Kelsey's job performance has not changed over the past year, she received a higher evaluation this year. Because the measure of performance is not reliable, there is _____ in the measure.
A) criterion relevance
B) criterion deficiency
C) criterion contamination
D) criterion sensitivity
Answer: C) criterion contamination
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The approach to psychotherapy used by Carl Rogers came to be known as person-centered therapy because:
a. therapists mostly spend time listening to patients talk about their lives in this approach. c. it is the person himself and not the therapist who directs the change and improvement in personality. b. it frequently involves looking at a person's early childhood experiences in order to discover how these events might have shaped the person. d. the therapist persuades a person to change his or her thought patterns through multiple sessions in this approach.
Conservation requires:
a. the ability to reverse one's thinking. b. the ability to focus on two or more aspects of a situation at once. c. concrete operational thinking. d. all of these.
__________ percent of the population has IQ scores between 70 and 130
a. Sixty-five b. Seventy-five c. Eighty-five d. Ninety-five
Which of the following statements about the rights of patients who are involuntarily committed is TRUE?
A. In 1975, the Supreme Court ruled that duly licensed psychiatrists can involuntarily commit an individual for up to two years. B. In 1982’s Youngberg v. Romeo, the Supreme Court expanded the rights of involuntarily committed patients to include freedom from unreasonable bodily restraints. C. An involuntarily committed patient’s right to refuse medication cannot be overridden in any circumstances. D. Until a ruling by a U.S. Appellate Court in 2007, lobotomies were performed on patients housed in most psychiatric facilities.