Tag: Psychology

Multiple Choice Question
What role, generally, do politicians play in misinformation?
“Outsider” politicians have fought against misinformation for generations.
Most politicians try to distance themselves from any sort of deception or misinformation.
Mainstream politicians have been the vanguard in the fight against misinformation.
Politicians’ deceptions have always been part of our politics, and they have contributed to the current rise in misinformation.

Research about phonemic awareness tells us that
a) phonemic awareness interventions should begin once students have mastered phonological sensitivity
b) phonemic awareness predicts later reading ability as well as skilled decoding
c) the instructional focus should be on blending and segmenting sounds not incorporating letters
d) rhyming and syllable identification should be mastered before phonemic awareness activities are introduced

7. To say that a test was empirically derived means that it is used to assess selected personality traits. It contains longer questions, covering a wide range of feelings and behaviors. It identifies clusters of test items that tap basic trait components. It was created by selecting from a pool of items those that discriminate between groups.
3. Which of the following is true of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory? It is an empirically derived test. It was designed to assess the personality traits of normal, psychologically healthy individuals. It can be administered and scored only by a trained psychologist. It is the most widely used projective test.
9. A personality test reveals that Jacqueline is antagonistic, ruthless, and suspicious, whereas Melissa is acquiescent, soft-hearted, and trusting. It appears that Jacqueline and Melissa have scored at opposite ends of the dimension of the Big Five: agreeableness, extraversion, conscientiousness, openness to experience.

Question 1 (2.5 points)
According to Augustine, what rules the Earthly City?
Depravity
Fear
Humility
Lust for rule
Question 2 (2.5 points)
What role did the Church play during Rome’s invasion by barbarians, according Augustine?
It served as a sanctuary for Christians and pagans alike
It joined with the barbarians to wage war on pagan Romans
It served as a mediator between Romans and barbarians, helping to establish peace
It attacked the barbarian invaders in a military defense of Rome
Question 3 (2.5 points)
Pope Innocent III says that men are
Naturally good, and tempted to sin only by human weakness
Holy once they become Christian
God’s most glorious creation
Horrible-created out of lust and born only to die and become food for worms
Question 4 (2.5 points)
According to Boccaccio, in Florence, what was the first indication that someone was infected with the plague?
A nosebleed
Terrible swelling in their groin and armpits
Violent vomiting
They would simply fall down dead

Hidden Figures movie Assignment questions
3. When one of the engineers suggests that Mary might want to be certified as an engineer, she learns that she must take night courses held at the white high school in order to do so. The US Supreme Court case of Brown v. Board of Education had declared that segregated school facilities were inherently unequal. Why does Mary still have to go to court to be admitted to her classes? How does she present her case to the judge? Why does he decide in her favor? How do her classmates and teacher react to her entrance?
4. Symbols are often used to make significant points in a film. How do the following repeated symbols help to tell the story? A) Coffee B) The restroom/bathroom C) the pearls
5. Mary Jackson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Katherine Johnson certainly deserve recognition as major figures in the history of space science. Do their stories still carry meaning for today’s young women? Can they help today’s young women as exemplars and role models? What can they teach us now?

An example of an empirically keyed test is a self-report measure that is given to individuals and has never been administered to groups of people known to differ in a specific way. A narrative of an individual’s life story. A self-report measure that is given to individuals and has also been administered to groups of people who differ in a specific way. An assessment of an individual’s spiritual well-being.

Which of the following statements about teratogens is true? The harm done by teratogens is simple and straightforward. Any environmental agent that causes damage during the prenatal period is a teratogen. O Smaller doses over shorter time periods have more negative effects. Teratogens have an equal impact on fetal development during each prenatal period.

Research on physical attractiveness indicates that men are more likely than women to:
judge members of the opposite sex as more attractive if they have a youthful appearance.
marry someone who is less physically attractive than they themselves are.
express dissatisfaction with their own physical appearance.
deny that their liking for physically attractive dates is influenced by good looks.

What can a positive public impression of hunters lead to?
Discounted firearms for hunters and an increased market for hunters to sell their game
Increased communication with lawmakers and increased public lands open to hunting
Greater acceptance of and support for hunting and greater awareness and interest in becoming a hunter
Increased funding for wildlife management and public lands and increased public land use

Time left 0:27:24 Dale made a poor first impression on Holland as Dale first arrived, so throughout their evening date, despite Dales pleasant behavior, Holland continued to see Dale in an unfavorable light due to
a. her feelings of empathy.
b. the halo/horn effect.
c. her punctuation of the events of the evening.
d. the narrative of the date.
e. physiological factors influencing Bianca’s perception.