A group of employees who assemble rigging for sailboats at the Hunter Yachts meet once every month and discuss what problems are occuring at work and what changes might be made to reduce those problems. When they agree on a solution, they present it to executives at Hunter Yachts. What techniques are these employees following:
Vanessa, an organizational psychologist, examines a company in terms of how well workers and technology fit together, the impact of technology on social functioning of workers, and the extent that line workers are allowed to solve problems on their own.What organization theory is Vanessa following: a) Sociotechnical systems t
Anand is the manager of the Reynolds and rodriguez Waste removel and Disposel Company. He is responsible for 12 teams of garbage collectors. The garbage collectors follow the same route every week and do the same thing every day. He has full responsibility and authority for hiring, firing, promoting, and giving raises to them. T
By age of 24 months, children ordinarily understand that toys that cannot be seen or touched still exist and, therefore, search for toys after they have been hidden. In othere words these children have developed: a) Perceptual Development b) Object Constancy c) The reversibility concept d) Decentration
Mr. and Mrs. Rotter are getting divorced. To reduce the negative effects of their separation on their two children, it is MOST important they: a) allow the children to decide which parent to live with after the divorce b) make sure all two children live with the same parent after the divorce c) keep open conflicts in front
In contrast to most philosophers, Kant argued that a) Our understanding conforms itself to objects b) Objects conform themselves to our understanding c) There is no real world d) There is no consciousness
According to Sacrates some people act evil because they a) Are born with an evil soul b) Are ignorant of the good c) Have learned to hate the good d) Possess weak Wills
1. What is the definition of psychological disorder or abnormal psychology and the integrated approach to viewing psychological disorders. 2. Discuss psychological dysfunction, distress, impairment, and atypical or unexpected cultural responses. 3. Emphasize the advantages (or disadvantages as you may see them) of the mult
Please describe a specific situation where a psychologist might be (or has been) used to find a solution to a real world problem.
Definitions and examples for the following: 1. Correlational analysis, 2. analyzes of differences between two conditions, 3. measure of association in statistics
Explain how two different psychologists can help in real life situation, such as for example counselling and health psychology, linking theory to practice.
Q. Why would a person make fun of someone having a mental illness and not a person with a physical illness? Q. Will society ever accept mental illness as an illness?
1. Generalizability of an experiment is related to ________ construct validity, external validity, internal validity, or statistical validity Please advise answer & why. Thanks!!
Experiments are conducted not only to find evidence for a position, but also to ____ avoid tentative conclusions, prove one's theory, rule out rival hypotheses, determine the absolute truth Please advise answer & why.
The following two questions appear to be the same problem asked different ways: 1. One of the major characteristics that differentiates experimentation from other levels of constraint is ____________ (a) the high degree of control exerted over both the procedures in general and the independent variable in particular
Which of the following phenomena is taxonic ________ intelligence, Rxtroversion (unsure about this), Risky sex behavior, or gender
We may be reaching the limit in the growth of data analysis because ________ (a) humans may not be able to comprehend the results (b) computers cannot do the more sophisticated computations (c) data is being entered sloppily (d) sophisticated methods are no longer the trend This question is posed.
Which of the following characteristic(s) of a study is (are) needed to determine the appropriate statistical test _______ (a) nature of dependent variable(s), (b) type od design, (c) number and level of independent variables, (d) all the above
Which of the following is NOT an example of a typical dependent measure in program evaluation _________ (a) a questionnaire given to people served by the program as well as people in the community, asking about their satisfaction with the program (b) a measure of politician's commitment to continued funding of the program
What is a major problem with nonequilvalent groups _______ (a) the groups may differ on the dependent measure(s) at the start of the study (b) there may be confounding variables not controlled by random assignment (c) the groups may differ on independent measure at the start of the study (d) both a & b This ques
Which of the following is true for experiments in the field setting _____________ (a) they cannot draw causal inferences (b) they can allow causal inferences (c) they provide only observations of contingencies (d) they can generate hypotheses but not test them Please advise answer & why - thanks!
The analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) is generally useful for __________ (a) removal of interaction effects, (b) statistical removal of variability caused by extraneous variables, (c) analyzing more than one independent variable, (d) all the above This inquiry is listed.
Which of the following statements is true __________ (a) no more than four factors can be included in a factorial design (b) interactions with up to ten factors can be readily interpreted (c) any number of factors can be included, but interpretation of interactions is more difficult as the number of factors increases
1. A good way to control carry-over effects in within-subjects experiments, provided that there are not too many experimental conditions, is ____________ positive practice, using a matched-subjects design, debriefing participants, or counterbalancing I believe - counterbalancing is the answer - please advise the correct
What is society's view on mental illness? How do some people differ in opinion? Why do society accept joking about a person having a mental illness and not a physical illness such as cancer?
Dion is testing children in his study. He takes special care to familiarize them with the experimentor, the equipment, and the procedure begore he begins to collect data. He is attempting to reduce reactivity by using a. Experimental realism b. Habituation c. Unobtrusive measures d. Counterbalancing
Stephanie is having participants report their feelings of racism on a questionnaire. Suppose the participants do not report their true feelings but rather say they have no racist thoughts. They want to avoid potentially embarrassing responses that will make Stephanie think badly of them. Such a problem is called a. Social d
Dr. Block, a social psychologist, enlisted several undergraduate students to help out his study. They posed as victims of a crime and asked "real" participants to help them. The proper research term for Dr. Block's undergraduate students is a. Assistants. b. Confederates. c. Helpers. d. Evaluators
What statistical technique is typically used to analysis data in small-N designs? a. Chi-square test b. Within-subjects ANOVA c. Linear regression d. No statistics are used: visual inspection is the preferred technique
This question is posed: Carol has found a significant interaction in her 3x2 factoral study. What does she do now? a. Post hoc comparisons b. A multivariate analysis of variance c. A mets-analysis d. Compute a contingency coefficient