Which of the following statements regarding personality changes in adulthood is MOST accurate?
a. Personality stability depends on one's sex and socioeconomic status.
b. The overall personality undergoes systematic changes throughout adulthood.
c. Personality remains extremely stable after adolescence.
d. The adult personality is characterized by both stability and change.
D
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Rogers said it is difficult for a therapist to know a client's experiential world completely, because
a. no form of therapy is infallible. b. communication is never perfect. c. non-conscious experiences are inaccessible. d. all of these are correct.
When evaluating psychological research, it is important to scrutinize whether the collected data support or refute the original hypothesis. Which of the following errors is an experimenter most likely to make?
A. Ignoring conflicting data and seeing only that which supports the hypothesis B. Being overly sensitive to conflicting data and refuting the hypothesis too quickly C. Being a sloppy researcher and missing supportive data D. Ignoring supportive data and seeing only that which refutes the hypothesis
Lf we drew a random sample from an introductory psychology class, to whom could we generalize our results?
a. all of human kind b. the university c. all psychology students d. the students in that introductory psychology class
The extent to which a trait is inherited versus acquired through interactions with the environment defines the concept of:
a. heritability b. genetic predisposition c. genetic engineering d. concordance