What was one reason for the growth of large mental institutions during the 1800s?
a. urbanization
b. widespread famines
c. spread of viral diseases
d. rapid development of surgical techniques
Answer: a.
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Paul Meehl has suggested that when clinicians mistakenly pay attention to vague, superficial, or stereotyped statements by clients, and fail to pay to attention to subtler but more important evidence, they are victims of the cognitive error he has labeled
a. cognitive dissonance effect. b. unreliability bias. c. Barnum effect. d. diagnostic fallibility crisis.
Factor analysis is a statistical procedure that can be used to:
A. derive IQ scores by comparing mental age with chronological age B. extract test norms from a standardization example C. identify clusters of closely related test items D. provide a quantitative estimate of heritability