When you wake up at night for a drink of water, the light from the bathroom momentarily blinds you. After a minute, however, you no longer squint. This is an example of:
A) retinal disparity.
B) accommodation.
C) sensory adaptation.
D) sensitization.
C) sensory adaptation.
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b. It is not only statistically significant but also clinically significant. c. It was a correlational study where scores on one variable decreased as scores on the other increased. d. It was a correlational study where no relationship was found between the first variable and the second.
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A research study on children who are reared in environments that differ from those of their biological parents is called a(n) ________ study
a. environmental c. subgenetic b. microgenetic d. cross-fostering
When analyzing data from experiments that involve more than two groups _________
a. doing t tests on all possible pairs of means decreases the probability of making Type I errors b. doing t tests on all possible pairs of means increases the probability of making Type I errors c. it is generally permissible to do t tests between all possible pairs of means and use Student's t distribution d. doing t tests on all possible pairs of means increases the probability of making Type II errors