Steve is conducting research on the reach of mental health care to the youth. After gathering data on psychologists, he creates a pie chart to display the percentage of psychologists working in different fields. In this scenario, Steve uses ______ to display the collected data.

a) inferential statistics
b) descriptive statistics
c) fiducial distribution
d) probability distribution

Ans: b) descriptive statistics

Psychology

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Don tells Ray he wants to get a new sports car. Ray immediately understands why, because he is familiar with the common characteristics of sports cars and knows what makes them different from family cars. Ray is using mental categories called:

a) classes. b) concepts. c) attributes. d) classifications.

Psychology

Regarding the relationships between teenagers and their parents, which of the following statements is the best summary of the current research?

a. Most teenagers report that they wish they had different parents, but they do not act in ways that demonstrate these feelings. b. Most teenagers admire their parents and support their religious and political beliefs. c. Most teenagers think their parents are too strict, and feel neither very positively nor very negatively toward them. d. Most teenagers report that they "like" their parents, but do not agree with the way their parents view the world.

Psychology