A jury's verdict risks either convicting an innocent person or freeing a guilty person. In the terminology of signal-detection theory, convicting an innocent person is which of the following?
a. A correct rejection
b. A hit
c. A false alarm
d. A miss
c
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Which of the following best describes the causes of schizophrenia?
A. Nature only B. Nurture only C. Nature first and then nurture D. Nurture first and then nature
In shaping:
a. the target behavior is reinforced more and more over time b. successive approximations of the target behavior are reinforced c. the target behavior is reinforced when it occurs closer and closer to the discriminative stimulus d. all of these
Jared and Joshua are both clinical psychologists, but Jared’s views have more of a psychoanalytic basis and Joshua’s views have more of a trait basis. Which method of personality testing are they most likely to share?
a. ?the clinical interview b. ?the project test c. ?the behavioral rating scale d. ?the personality inventory
The process of trepanation
A. always killed the patient. B. may have been done to release demons or relieve feelings of pressure. C. appears to have been performed after a person died. D. was first used during the sixteenth century in Europe.