A research proposal is a ____
a. research report
b. conference presentation
c. conference poster
d. plan for a new study
d
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What is another name for a proband?
a. carrier b. index case c. identical twin d. fraternal twin
Dr. Erkzine says that one of the shortcomings of social cognitive theory is that it is empirically based. What is your reaction to his criticism?
A. You agree and would add that there is more evidence supporting the psychodynamic theory. B. Being experimentally based is actually a strength of social cognitive theory. C. He may be right, but that is a mild problem of social cognitive theory. D. You agree and add that another shortcoming is that the theory just focuses on environmental influences.
The representativeness heuristic is a way of answering a question by classifying observations according to how closely they resemble the "typical" case.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
One day after the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded, Neisser and Harsch asked college students to describe how they first heard the news. Three years later they again asked the same students to recollect how they had heard about the explosion of the space shuttle. In their study, Neisser and Harsch found that:
a. the delayed memories were more accurate than the original memories b. there was not much agreement between the delayed memories and the original memories c. the delayed memories contained more detailed descriptions than the original memories d. the delayed memories and the original memories were essentially the same