Which one of the following study strategies study strategies and mnemonics is associated with buffering against stress?
A. Distributed practice
B. Creating acronyms
C. Restudying material
D. Test taking
Answer: D
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a. its placebo condition did not control for expectancy effects b. it did not include an independent variable c. it confuses experimental designs with correlational designs d. it did not have a placebo condition
Mental activity that goes in the brain when a person is processing information is called ___.
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
If an experimenter seeks to learn the effects of music on anxiety and manipulates the type of music participants listen to, music is considered the independent variable
Indicate whether this statement is true or false.
The statement that "Japanese children are more intelligent than American children" is an example of the use of
a. inferential statistics. b. descriptive statistics. c. standard deviations. d. frequency distributions.