Dr. Black is doing research in which she must diagnose clients at a mental health clinic. Because diagnostic reliability is of great concern in research, she will most likely establish diagnoses by using __________.
A. open-ended interviews
B. structured assessment interviews
C. the mental status exam
D. time-limited interviews that last the same length of time for each client, although the questions may differ
Answer: B
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Polina participates in a short-term memory experiment. The experimenter reads aloud a list of twenty objects, and Polina has to mentally rate how effective each object would be if she was stranded on a deserted island. The experimenter then asks her to count backwards by threes from one hundred. This task, known as ____, ensures that Polina does not rehearse the information to keep it in her
short-term memory.? a. ?motivated forgetting b. ?chunking c. ?the Brown-Peterson distractor technique d. ?the relearning method
Participants in one study recalled words better when they had been asked first whether or not the word described them (rather than, for example, if the word had been printed in large letters). Researchers interpret this to mean that
A. the participants had to think about the word more when asked if it described them. B. the self description questions generated more interest for the participants than the other questions. C. the self description questions generated a stronger emotional reaction for the participants than the other questions. D. the participants processed the information for the self description questions through a self schema.
A nonexperimental study designed to measure the degree of relationship (if any) between two or more events or variables is called a __________ study
a. naturalistic observation b. correlational c. clinical d. survey
Fiske, Cuddy, Glick, and Xu proposed two categories of judgment: warmth and competence. What is this called?
A. frustration-aggression theory B. stereotype content model C. social identity theory D. realistic conflict theory