Sociocultural factors of abnormal behavior include ___________
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
Answer: circles of influence on an individual ranging from family and friends to political policies.
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Akon and Eda were enrolled in different sections of the same English course. When Akon was taking his final exam in the course, there was some construction going on outside the room where the exam was held. It was noisy and Akon found it difficult to concentrate. Eda wrote her final in the evening, and the building was quiet, with no distractions. In this example, the administration of the
English final: a. did not have high test-retest reliability b. did not have construct validity c. was not standardized across the course sections d. would have high predictive validity
The Kinsey continuum was the first scale to suggest that ____
a. we should just let people decide for themselves; if they believe they are heterosexual, they are, no matter how they behave b. the simplest way to categorize a person's sexual orientation seems to be through sexual behavior c. people engage in complex sexual behaviors that cannot be reduced to simply "homosexual" or "heterosexual" d. we should consider romantic love instead of sex to determine a person's sexual orientation
Based on what you know about Strayer and Johnson's 2001 study, what advice would it make sense to give drivers?
A. Talking on the phone while driving does not cause drivers to make errors, but it does slow their reaction times. B. Be aware that talking on the phone while driving is just as dangerous as listening to the radio while driving. C. Get a hands-free phone so you can drive safely even while having a long phone conversation. D. Be aware that talking on the phone while driving makes drivers inattentive and prone to mistakes.
In assessing the relationship between variable x and variable y, the squared value of the correlation coefficient (r2) is sometimes reported. This value represents
A. the degree of variability in variable y. B. the effect size of the variables. C. the percent of variance in y that can be accounted for by x. D. the degree of variability in variable x.