Statistical inference is the process of estimating _____ population parameters from
sample statistics.
a. known; known
b. known; unknown
c. unknown; unknown
d. unknown; known
D
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Your family is discussing autism because a neighbor was recently diagnosed as suffering from ASD. Most of the members of the family say they are not surprised, because autism occurs in better-educated families. You recognize that this is not true, so you
tell your family that their false correlation is a result of a referral bias. They look at you with puzzlement and ask you to explain. What do you say? a. Better educated families with autistic children tend to demand more of therapists. b. Better educated families are more likely to seek diagnosis and treatment for their children at specialty clinics. c. These families tend to blame themselves for their child's autism and often are the source of media reports on autism. d. These families tend to be sought out by researchers seeking individuals to study in research on autism.
If you look at a rose and report "The rose is red" then you are describing immediate experience.?
a. True b. False
Your book discusses the memory functioning of patient H.M. who underwent brain surgery to relieve severe epileptic seizures. H.M.'s case has been extremely informative to psychologists by demonstrating that
A. long-term memory can operate normally while short-term memory is impaired. B. impairment of one memory system (long-term or short-term) necessarily leads to deficits in the functioning of the other. C. a double dissociation exists for short-term and long-term memory. D. short-term memory can operate normally while long-term memory is impaired.
Tuyet-Hoa hears voices in her head. These voices often tell her that she is a bad person and does not deserve to live. Tuyet-Hoa suffers from ____
a. auditory hallucinations b. somatic hallucinations c. nihilistic delusions d. thought insertion