How do researchers determine whether an IQ test is biased against some minority group?
a. Determine whether minority group members have the same mean score as other people.
b. Determine whether the best minority member score is as high as the best score for others.
c. Determine whether minority group members do better in school than their scores predict.
d. Determine whether scores have increased over the years for minority group members.
c
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Denial is a defense mechanism in which
a. anxiety-producing thoughts are forced into conscious awareness. b. anxiety-producing thoughts are isolated from conscious awareness. c. pleasurable thoughts are forced into conscious awareness. d. pleasurable thoughts are isolated from conscious awareness.
Which of the following is NOT true of the etiology of dissociative identity disorder?
a. Some theorists believe people use a false diagnosis of DID to excuse their personal failings. b. Many clinicians are convinced that DID is an authentic disorder. c. Scientific interest to solve this question has increased since the mid-1990s due to public interest. d. DID may be rooted in severe emotional childhood trauma.
According to the Big Five model of personality, people high in which of the following traits tend to attract more friends and enjoy strong social support from others, but often put the interests of friends and family ahead of their own?
a. conscientiousness b. agreeableness c. neuroticism d. extroversion
Recent reviews of psychodynamic psychotherapy
a. suggest that children and adolescents tend to experience more benefit than do adults. b. indicate that the treatment appears to be efficacious for only depression. c. both of the above d. neither of the above