The two fundamental dimensions along which Heider believed causal attributions vary are _____ and _____.

A) externality;internality
B) stability;externality
C) locus of causality;internality
D) locus of causality;stability

_____provide(s) context for your scores on a particular psychological instrument. That is to say, most well-established personality measures include mean scores and percentiles for particular demographic groups.

A) Statistical significance
B) Reliability coefficients
C) Standardization statistics
D) Test norms

The difference between an experimental design and a quasi-experimental design is that __________.

A) only quasi-experimental designs use random assignment
B) quasi-experimental designs are specifically designed to investigate alcohol effects; experimental designs are not
C) only experimental designs use random assignment
D) experimental design studies are specifically designed to investigate alcohol effects; quasi-experimental designs are not

Imagine that you are a therapist working on the border between the United States and Mexico but you don't speak Spanish. What is proper ethical behavior for you?

A) acknowledge your limitations and seek further training
B) pretend to be knowledgeable so as not to upset your clients
C) ignore the potential influence of culture and language because the basic concerns of all people are the same
D) continue to practice as you were originally taught

Children in which ethnic group grow faster and are taller and heavier than white children of the same age?

A) Asian American
B) Hispanic
C) East Indian
D) African American

Compare and contrast Broadbent's filter theory with Treisman's modified filter theory. Which theory best accounts for the ways in which people select what they attend to from the massive amount of information entering the sensory registers?

Which of the following guides the decisions made by applied social psychologists and scientists in their work?

A) personal values
B) merit
C) equality
D) equivalence

In the definition of critical thinking, the term ________ refers to a person's capacity to reflect on his own thinking process.

In the equation S = k log I, the I refers to __________.

A) the psychological magnitude or subjective magnitude of a stimulus
B) the physical intensity of the stimulus
C) the constant whose value depends on the value of the Weber fraction
D) none of the above