Based on Charles Spearman's view of intelligence, individuals who excel in:
a. one academic area are likely to perform poorly in other academic areas
b. academics early are likely to "burn out" when they are older
c. one academic area are likely to excel in most academic areas
d. academics are also likely to be gifted athletes and musicians
C
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A. door-in-the-face B. low-ball C. foot-in-the-door D. public-acceptance
The tendency to look for or pay attention only to information that confirms s one's own belief is called ________
a. a mental set. b. confirmation bias. c. stereotype threat. d. mindlessness.
Which one of the following two general categories do assessments for integrity fall into?
A. polygraphs and interviews B. assessment centers and interviews C. physiological measures and paper-and-pencil tests D. simulations and polygraphs.
If you tried to conduct a survey of sexual behavior, which of the following would encourage you that your participants were answering reliably?
A) The frequency of behaviors that your participants report initially changes considerably when asking them again after 18 months. B) When interviewing spouses separately, they report very similar behaviors and frequencies of their sexual behaviors. C) Participants' responses to your friendliest interviewer were more revealing than responses to your least friendly interviewer. D) The frequencies of sexual behavior reported in your sample are larger than in any other available study.