The "Big Five" factor model of personality was based on attempts to further reduce the 16 factors developed by which theorist down to just five universal dimensions?
a. Gordon Allport
b. Raymond Cattell
c. Hans Eysenck
d. Dollard and Miller
B
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Recent experiments on eyewitness testimony have shown that the relationship between a person's confidence in his or her testimony and its accuracy
a. depends upon whether the witness is male or female. b. depends upon whether the witness has at least a high school education. c. has almost no relationship. d. is more suspect for children than for adults.
A psychologist wanted to see if people are more prone to seek the company of others when anxious than when calm. He randomly assigned half of his subjects to an anxiety group and then told them that, as part of the study,
they would receive electric shocks. He did not frighten the other group of subjects. Finally, he recorded how many subjects in each group chose to be "tested" in a group setting and how many chose to be "tested" alone. What was the independent variable in this study? a. tendency to desire the company of others b. level of shock c. level of anxiety d. the anxious group
Discuss the differences in judge and jury decisions in different kinds of civil trials. What are selection effects? How do judges and juries differ in the punitive damages they award in different cases?
What will be an ideal response?
The place theory of pitch suggests that pitch is determined by the __________.
A. specific location where hair cells are stimulated B. number of hair cells that are stimulated C. size of the hair cells that are stimulated D. degree of bend in the stimulated hair cells