Twenty-five-year old Lay Hoon took a battery of intelligence tests for admission into the
Royal Hong Kong Air Force Academy and scored slightly above average.
She was tested
again twenty years later, and her performance on the tests nearly doubled. According to
the text, Horn and his colleagues would attribute this increase to
a. an increase in fluid intelligence.
b. an increase in crystallized intelligence.
c. an increase in both fluid and crystallized intelligence.
d. an increase in concentration and reaction time.
b
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A graph of the research on the social rule "you can't stop true love" by age would likely show a a. flat line
b. steadily decreasing slope. c. steadily increasing slope. d. U-shaped curve.
Which method is least likely to be used to assess the validity of a measurement?
a. split-half b. concurrent c. predictive d. convergent
You are walking down a deserted alley late at night; and you hear a sudden noise to your left. Your sympathetic nervous system prepares your body for fight or flight, and you experience fear. Just before you turn to run, however, you see a cat race away from the trash can he was digging in. "Oh, that was the noise," you think. Instead of experiencing fear, you laugh wildly at what you had imagined was coming after you in the alley. This set of events is best described by which theory of emotion?
a. the common sense theory b. the James-Lange theory c. Schachter's cognitive theory d. the Cannon-Bard theory
A crucial element of the science of human development is the:
focus on all kinds of people, young and old. search for the meaning of life. focus on middle-class American people. use of subjective research methods.