As you drive along a rural highway, the speedometer on your car says you are going 70 mph, but a police officer pulls you over and informs you that you were really doing 90 mph. One month later, the same thing happens. You drive down the same highway, thinking you are going 70 mph, and the same officer pulls you over to say you were speeding. One possibility is that your car's speedometer is ___________ but not __________.

Statistics maintained by the U.S. Census Bureau on same-sex couples indicates a(n)

overcount. undercount. accurate data base. numbers skewed to the left.

The basic dilemma of the social psychologist is that

a. it is hard to teach social psychology to students because most people believe strongly in personality. b. there is a trade-off between internal and external validity in most experiments. c. it is nearly impossible to use a random selection of the population in laboratory experiments. d. almost all social behavior is influenced by the culture in which people grew up.