As consumption of ice cream increases during the year, so does the number of aggravated assaults. A politician advocates that ice cream be banned so that the crime rate will go down. Besides needing to be voted out of office, this politician needs to understand
a. the dangers of a single example.
b. the difference between observation and inference.
c. the difference between correlation and causation.
d. that the Barnum effect occurs only in ten-year cycles.
C
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Jacob has severe epilepsy, so a surgeon cuts through his corpus callosum to prevent seizures from crossing to the other side of Jacob's brain. After surgery, when Jacob sees a picture of a ball in his left visual field, he cannot ____.?
a. ?choose a ball from among several objects with his right hand b. ?spell out “BALL” with letter magnets c. ?make a throwing motion with his right hand d. ?correctly identify the ball in words
Postconventional morality requires formal operational thinking
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Behavioral scientists study the laws of nature regarding
a. populations and samples. b. the behavior of living organisms. c. sea lions, gorillas, and other nonhuman species. d. the language of statistics.
An individual with Broca's aphasia would be less likely to use what word?
A. car B. about C. apple D. drove