The reliance of many social psychology studies on college student participants poses a threat to
a. internal validity.
b. external validity.
c. mundane realism.
d. experimental realism.
a
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A. precede the desired behavior B. occur at the same time as the desired behavior C. become a predictor for the desired behavior D. follow the desired behavior
Racial prejudice typically shows a DECLINE at the age of about
a. five years. b. eight years. c. 11 years. d. never; prejudice tends to rise steadily with age.
Schizophrenia means "split mind" in Greek. To what "split" does this term refer?
a. the split in personality, characterized by the existence of two or more separate personalities within the same person b. the patients' split with between their emotions and their thoughts c. the changes that take place as the condition progresses, or a split from the previous person to the person with schizophrenia d. a disconnect in the corpus callosum, which does not allow information to be transferred from one hemisphere to the other
The opponent-process theory of color vision was first proposed by Thomas Young in 1802
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.