Jessica is conducting a study of the personality of eighth-graders with high achievement motivation. She discovers from statistical analysis that her test's items are measuring more than one concept. You might tell Jessica that she has a problem with
A. internal consistency.
B. reliability.
C. statistical significance.
D. predictive validity.
A
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With respect to the feminist movement, Asian women often find that
a. their cultural background is consistent with feminist goals. b. their cultural background does not emphasize women's strength or social change. c. because women are relatively invisible in their culture, males are not especially concerned about their efforts to achieve feminist goals. d. direct methods are usually most effective in bringing about social change.
Your efforts to predict how you will respond emotionally to future events is known as
a. affective forecasting. b. mood foreshadowing. c. perceptual constancy. d. emotional proliferation.
Izard's theory of emotion assumes that
a. children are born with only one emotion and other emotions differentiate across time. b. infants are born with no emotions and must learn them all. c. infants are born with all emotions and they appear along with the child's cognitive development and social experience d. emotional development progresses hand-in-hand with cognitive development.
Olaf can reason consistently about real and tangible things. However, he cannot yet reason about abstract ideas or situations. Olaf is probably in Piaget's ______ stage
rational logic preoperational formal operational concrete operational