One study indicated that among Black and Latino students, transitioning to a school where the proportion of students from the same ethnic background is lower than it had been at their previous school is associated with
A. lower grades.
B. self-harm attempts.
C. more frequent absences.
D. greater disengagement from school.
Answer: D
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a. may vary by theoretical orientation. b. will be uniform. c. will be uniform if all four clinicians have Ph.D. degrees in clinical psychology. d. will involve the same standardized tests, even if interview styles vary.
If an employer wanted to evaluate an employee training session using trainee learning criteria, that employer would most likely
A. examine whether the trainees' productivity increases. B. commission experimental research on its training program. C. ask the trainees to fill out questionnaires about whether they enjoyed the training session. D. test each trainee's knowledge and skill in the areas covered by the training material.
Critical thinking skills are a good thing to read about, but they are not essential to the effective study and application of psychology
a. true b. false
Sample mean differences can be caused by ______.
a. the effect b. sampling error c. the effect and sampling error d. neither effect nor sampling errors