Dorothy is a young African American adolescent. Dorothy is expecting her first child. The father of Dorothy's child is absent and does not want to be part of raising the child. According to research, the key to Dorothy being successful and "overcomin

A psychologist wants to obtain a measure of children's attention spans under quiet conditions. She arranges for a group of children to meet individually with a research assistant who reads each child a list of numbers and then asks the child to repeat the

this task. The psychologist finds that the scores that each child received at week one and at week two tend to be very similar. She concludes that this test has high a. validity. b. split-half reliability. c. interrater reliability. d. test-retest reliability.

Of the following living circumstances, __________ describes approximately one-third of those who suffer from schizophrenia and other severe mental disorders.

A. unsupervised living B. living with a family member C. jail or prison D. living in a hospital