A researcher finds that when people report their sexual activity on a mailed questionnaire, they indicate higher levels of bizarre fantasies than when they are questioned face to face. This indicates that these methods of measuring sexual activity ____
a. have high base rates
b. are high in validity
c. are negatively correlated
d. have low reliability
d
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One person became blind because of eye damage and another because of damage to the visual cortex. How do they differ? a. The one with cortical damage can describe what an object is, without knowing where it is. b. The one with cortical damage can learn to identify colors by touching them
c. The one with eye damage still wakes up when the sun rises. d. The one with eye damage still has visual imagery and visual dreams.
Puff and his associates (2010) found that ____ predicted the highest levels of prosodies behavior
a. being non-heterosexual b. coming from a non-dominant religious background c. being from a lower social class d. being of a minority race or ethnicity
Which quote is most similar to the theory of operant conditioning?
a. "Emotions are a function of beliefs, not events." b. "Emotions are the outgrowth of passive associations we make with positive and negative stimuli in the world." c. "Most of our behavior is motivated by factors of which we are not conscious." d. "We do more of whatever behavior pays off."
Explain the difference between a predictor and an outcome variable.
What will be an ideal response?