Professor Nichols carries out a correlational study where he finds a strong, positive relationship between levels of anxiety and blood pressure
Understanding correlational relationships, he notes that if one tries to infer causation in such a situation, it might be the case that having high anxiety causes one to have high blood pressure, or having high blood pressure causes one to be anxious. This problem with correlational outcomes is known as
a. the Hawthorne effect.
b. directionality.
c. a history effect.
d. spontaneous recovery.
b
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Which of the following statements is true?
a. Emotions are psychological states, and so groups cannot be said to have emotional reactions. b. Collective rituals, such as marching, increase teamwork but minimize the group’s collective emotions. c. The more members identify with the group, the more likely they will adopt and display the group’s collective affective state. d. Groups can experience emotions collectively so long as all the members of the group can personally experience the event that triggered the emotional reaction. e. Collective emotions, unlike other shared beliefs, can be experienced by only one or two of the members of a group.
The search for individual genes related to intelligence has led to what result, so far?
a. No genes influence intelligence. b. One gene has been found that leads to "genius" level intelligence. c. Three genes control most of the variation in intelligence. d. Intelligence relates to many genes with small effects.
In distribution-free tests, you usually reject the null hypothesis when the obtained value is smaller than the critical value
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The first three R's in the SQ4R method stand for recognize, rehearse, and remember
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