“I’ve always thought I should be a lawyer because I love to catch people in lies. Conversation is almost a battle for me,” says Darla. Identify Darla’s poor listening habit and explain why it might make her a good lawyer.
What will be an ideal response?
Darla engages in ambushing, a poor listening habit in which people attend to information in order to later discredit their conversation partners. Although this is a negative habit, it would help Darla pay attention to flaws in arguments or witness testimony.
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According to the text, which of the following statements best describes the
methodological quality of the studies reported by Frederic Wertham on the negative effects of comic books?
a. The content analysis procedures were not systematic and did not rely on random samples; the youth he worked with did not represent the larger population of comic book readers. b. The content analysis procedures were systematic and relied on random samples, but the youth he worked with did not represent the larger population of comic book readers. © 2016 Cengage Learning®. May not be scanned, copied or duplicated, or posted to a publicly accessible website, in whole or in part. c. The survey procedures were well conceived and relied on random samples and the youth were representative of comic book readers across the nation. d. The experimental procedures were both internally and externally valid and the youth were carefully chosen as “typical” of all comic book readers. e. The ethnographic methods used were screened by an impartial panel of judges prior to their implementation; the youth he surveyed were not typical of the general population but they were not highly unusual either.