Consider a survey that is designed to collect information on participants' desire to appear socially desireable. The items ask participants about the frequency with which they experience common everyday situations (e.g. the urge to steal a pack of gum if they knew they would never be caught). The scoring procedure includes a threshold score at which a participant is likely answering so as to appear more "good" or socially desireable than they are. This survey has high _________ validity, but low _________ validity.

Define and give examples of the three main categories of temperament used by contemporary researchers (negative emotionality, positive emotionality, and effortful control). Provide an example to support each category.

What will be an ideal response?

Cronbach's Alpha is used to overcome limitations associated with reliability assessed using the ____ method

a. inter-rater b. split-half c. average inter-item correlation d. average item-total correlation

The fundamental attribution error is based on the

a. confirmatory bias. b. need to believe that one can control one's fate. c. basic distrust that we have of other humans. d. need to accurately detect causes of behavior.

Across hundreds of studies, __________ of people who receive some kind of therapy improve more (or faster) than those who do not get therapy.

A. 15% B. 30% C. 52% D. 75%