Graduate programs in psychology specify that entering students should have taken a course in research methods or experimental psychology. They require such an undergraduate course
a. so they can weed out weak students.
b. because they need students to do their research for them.
c. because they believe students should know how psychological knowledge develops.
d. so students will have one less required course to take in graduate school.
C
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A. A person's frustration-anger threshold. B. A genetically-determined physiological disposition to respond to the environment in stable and typical manner. C. The sum total of a person's enduring personality traits that are co-determined by genetics and the environment. D. A person's baseline level of happiness.
Intelligence test is valid to the extent that it:
A) measures what it is supposed to measure B) has been normed using samples representative of those for whom the test was designed C) yields consistent measurements D) minimizes potential cultural biases