When your attention is drawn to an external event of some sort, this is referred to as stimulus-driven capture

Indicate whether this statement is true or false.


Answer: True

Psychology

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A. fewer tacks are provided. B. pliers are also presented. C. the box is empty. D. the candle is already lit.

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If you wanted to study the effects of caffeine on sleep, you could vary the consumption levels of caffeine. The administration of caffeine is

a. the treatment. c. unethical. b. the control. d. the dependent variable.

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Lionel, a 15-year-old boy, likes to use sarcastic humor. This is an example of his __________.

A. preoperational thinking B. concrete thinking C. metacognition D. resilience

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Two statistical methods that researchers use to determine whether an independent variable has a reliable effect on a dependent variable are

A. null hypothesis significance testing and confidence intervals. B. statistical significance and odds-likelihood analysis. C. analysis of error variation and effect size. D. Cohen's d and alpha.

Psychology