An experimenter collected data on how well a study guide improved grades on an exam taken late in the semester compared to an exam taken early in the semester. Using a related sample means t test, the results showed that later grades were higher than early grades (t(74) = 3.64, p < .05). Which of the following was NOT an advantage of this design?
a. The design controlled for students who did poorly both times.
b. The design controlled for extraneous variables like intelligence levels.
c. The design controlled for carry-over effects from already having taken one exam when the second exam was administered.
d. All of the above are advantages of this design.
C
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a. reasons that are easy to verbalize are not always the most influential reasons. b. self-enhancement motives are more powerful than accuracy motives. c. we are likely to fall prey to the fundamental attribution error. d. such introspections can feel paralyzing, and thus negatively affect our mood.
Which of the following describes Weber's law?
A. What an individual sees and hears is completely dependent on her or his perception and desire. B. The size of a just noticeable difference in stimuli perception is a constant fraction of the intensity of the stimulus. C. Muscles control the shape of the eye's lens to adjust to viewing objects at different distances. D. The texture of a surface becomes more tightly packed together and dense as the surface moves to the background.
The left planum temporale roughly corresponds to
A) Wernicke's area. B) Broca's area. C) the frontal operculum. D) Heschl's gyrus. E) primary auditory cortex.
What transforms information into a form that can be entered and retained by the memory system?
What will be an ideal response?