A newspaper story described a 26-year-old man who has an intense desire to change his physical sex. In the account, the reporter wrote that she asked a physician for the appropriate term to describe this man. What term was used?
a) transsexual
b) transvestite
c) homosexual
d) pseudohermaphrodite
a
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Twin and adoption studies on aggression show that up to ____ of human aggression is governed by genetic factors.
A. 69% B. 50% C. 34% D. 3%
The textbook describes a study by Menzies & Lane (2012) in which the Student Risk Screening Scale (SRSS) was administered to a group of students and then the students were monitored for self-control, academic performance, and discipline referrals. The purpose of this study was to establish ____ validity for the test
a. face b. concurrent c. predictive d. convergent
Which of the following is NOT true concerning the sense of taste:
A. Taste receptors, respond differentially to the varying shapes of food and liquid molecules. B. A small number of taste receptors are found in the palate and the back of our mouths. C. Even people without a tongue experience some taste sensations. D. There are specific areas of the tongue dedicated to detecting bitter, sweet, salty, and other tastes.
The potential for the Hawthorne effect is most pronounced when the
researcher is using a. the between-subjects design b. the matched-subjects design c. the one-group repeated-measures design d. an assigned independent variable