_____ Studies have shown that children whose mothers engage them in highly elaborative conversations about past events remember more than children whose mothers are less elaborative in their conversations about past events

One of the main advantages of modern brain imaging techniques is that they may

a. illuminate the relationship between brain activity and mental problems. b. reduce the cost of clinical assessments. c. be used to validate the diagnostic information derived from projective techniques. d. eliminate the need for costly interview techniques in the diagnostic process.

When Joyce takes a personality test, she is told that the test is reliable; that is, it

a. measures what it is designed to measure. b. compares its results against established standards of performance. c. produces the same results from one time to the next. d. predicts other criteria of the personality trait in question.