Suppose that you are discussing the Scholastic Achievement Test (SAT) with some friends. What could you tell them about the fairness of the critical reading portion of that test?
a. It has no validity in predicting success in college.
b. Females perform significantly better on the parts that require a good vocabulary, and males perform significantly better on the reading comprehension part.
c. No substantial gender differences have been found on the critical reading part of the test.
d. Females' scores have consistently been higher on the critical reading part of the test.
C
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The authors of your textbook have suggested that one reason for the relatively poor long-term reliability of personality tests is that
a. the tests are not really measuring personality. b. personality is too broad of a construct to adequately measure. c. personality tests are too vague and subjective. d. although people exhibit a core of stability, they continually change.
In one of the first social psychological experiments ever conducted, researcher Max Ringelmann observed men as they pulled on a rope either alone, as part of a small group, or as part of a large group. He found that as the size of the group increased, ____
a. individual effort increased b. individual effort decreased c. the task took longer to complete d. the task took less time to complete
Your text describes an experiment by Talarico and Rubin (2003) that measured people's memories of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 . Which of the following was the primary result of that research? a. Participants had very little confidence in the accuracy of their memories of the events 32 weeks after they occurred. b. Participants had a very high level of confidence of the
terrorist events and also had high confidence in theirpresent "everyday" memories 32 weeks later. c. Participants had high confidence in the accuracy of their memories of the terrorist events 32 weeks later, but when actually tested made significant errors when asked what they were doing on the day of the attacks. d. After 32 weeks, participants had a high level of confidence in their memories of the terrorist events, butlower belief in their memories of "everyday" events.
According to the gate-control theory of pain, the release of endorphins by the brain may be responsible for:
a. the feeling of phantom pain that is sometimes experienced in amputated limbs b. the effectiveness of placebos in reducing the perception of pain c. an increase in the activity of small fibers, opening pain gates in the spinal cord d. a decrease in the activity of large fibers, closing pain gates in the spinal cord