Social Psychology is defined as the scientific study of how different circumstances impact us as well as how people perceive, interact and connect with other people. These connecti

Please read questions and answer accordingly:
If you step on a scale just one time and it says you weigh 150 lbs and you actually weigh 150lbs this is an example of
Reliability
Criterion validity
Hypothesis testing
Face validity
In purely scientific terms, a scientific absolute law is
Something that’s always true
A contradiction in terms
Something that’s usually true
Meant to be obeyed
When it comes to understanding children, science is:
Usually right with the potential to be wrong
Never right
Usually wrong with the potential to be right
Never wrong
Which of the following is NOT. A reason why we study child development?
To fully measure the infinite meanings of childhood
To better understand human nature
To improve our teaching practices
To help society promote the well-being of children in general
Chys 2p10 focuses soley on using _____ to explain childhood
Science
Psychology
History
Experience
Imagine you are interested in studying shyness. You develop a new questionnaire that asks people to report how shy they feel in different situations. you want to establish whether your new questionnaire is a valid way of measuring shyness. So you administer your questionnaire to participants. You also measured the change in their heart rate when they are asked to speak to a group of people, compared to when they are on their own. what pattern of results would you expect if your questionnaire was not measuring the same construct as your heart rate test?
there would be no relationship between people scores on your questionnaire and their heart rate
people with low shyness scores on your questionnaire would show a large increase in their heart rate when speaking to a group of people
people with high shyness scores on your questionnaire would show a large increase in their heart rate when speaking to a group of people
all other options are correct
A hallmark of experimental studies is:
the manipulation of one or more factors and observation of how these manipulations changed the behavior under investigation
the manipulation of only one variable as often as possible to determine the effects of that variable
the manipulation of time in the presentation of the materials to the subject
the manipulation of every variable at each stage of the experiment
the best metaphor for math is that it is:
easy
the language of the universe
subjective
hard