Making Diagnostic Criteria Specific and Listing Specific Areas to Be

question 93

Multiple Choice

Making diagnostic criteria specific and listing specific areas to be addressed in an interview are ways of ____ the Barnum effect in the resulting psychological report.

• A) decreasing
• B) increasing
• C) maximizing
• D) eliminating

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Definitions:

Radiometric Dating

A method for determining the age of an object based on the decay rate of radioactive isotopes contained within it.

Half-Life

The time required for half the quantity of a radioactive substance to undergo decay or for a drug's concentration in the body to be reduced by half.

Isotope

Variants of a particular chemical element that differ in neutron number, and therefore in mass, but share the same chemical properties.

Atoms Decay

A natural process by which the nucleus of an unstable atom loses energy by emitting radiation, leading to the transformation of the atom into a different element or isotope.