Tomoko is developing a survey regarding anger management. Respondents rate their level of agreement with each item on a scale of one to five. Item 4 states: “Given enough provocation, I may swear at a friend or family member.” Item 12 states: “I can think of no good reason for ever swearing at a friend or family member.” These questions seek to determine ____
a. inter-rater consistency
b. internal consistency
c. inter-method consistency
d. test-retest consistency
ANSWER:
b
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A student is attempting to train a dog to salivate to a tone at a given frequency. The student’s procedure on each of 100 trials is to present food powder, then to present a brief tone, and then to measure the dog’s salivation to the tone presented alone. The major problem with this procedure is that
a) Salivation is an inappropriate UCR b) Dogs often fail to pay attention to the CS when it is a tone of unvarying frequency c) Extinction will take place on some of the trials d) The UCS precedes the CS rather than vice versa e) The UCR is not sufficiently similar to the CR
Biruk is a two-month old infant. He _______________________
a. needs more fat in his diet than at any other time of life b. does not eat as often as he will when he is a toddler c. has nutritional energy needs that are less than they will be at any other time in life d. will probably be introduced to solid foods at about the same age regardless of the culture in which he is raised