In her psychology classes, Dr. Murphey uses problem-based learning cases in order to enhance her students' abilities to actively reflect, analyze, and evaluate information about real-life cases involving troubled marriages and caring for elderly parents. Dr. Murphey is attempting to increase her students'
a. transductive reasoning skills.
b. commonsense reasoning.
c. correlational skills.
d. critical thinking skills.
D
You might also like to view...
______ is a graph showing the relationship between two dependent variables for a group of individuals.
A. Line graph B. Pie chart C. Bar graph D. Scatterplot
Recordings of brain activity show that
a. positive emotions are processed in the right hemisphere of the brain. b. negative emotions are processed in the left hemisphere of the brain. c. it is possible to have positive and negative emotions at the same time. d. none of these statements are true.
Which type of statistics are used for decision-making, for generalizing from small samples, and for drawing conclusions?
a. descriptive b. inferential c. nominal d. ordinal
Piaget based the substages of sensorimotor development on __________
A) interviews with parents and children B) observations of a large sample of young children C) observations of his own three children D) field experiments with toddlers and preschoolers