Ivie and Ray's (1990) study tracked female graduates in various academic disciplines over 35 years. Each of the disciplines increased over that time, except one that increased sharply, and then decreased. Which discipline is that?
a. Computer science
b. Engineering
c. Mathematics
d. Physics
Answer: a. Computer science
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When you are deciding between two apartments, assuming you can afford both of them and they are both adequate for your needs, what feature should you pay most attention to if you want to maximize your satisfaction with the apartment a year after you have moved in?
a. Rent–choose the cheapest apartment. b. Neighborhood quality–choose the most pleasant neighborhood with lots of things to do. c. Square footage–choose the biggest apartment. d. Both rent and square footage should affect your decision equally, and more so than neighborhood quality.
As part of a class you are interviewing a five-year-old girl. You ask the child to explain how to cook breakfast and how to ride a bike. She doesn't seem to notice that her explanations do not make sense. Since you are familiar with social cognitive theory, you know that this child probably has not yet developed a mature ability of:
A. self-efficacy B. self-analysis C. schemes D. purposeful behavior
In a between-subjects design, large individual differences can produce ____
a. large between-treatment differences, making it easier to see real treatment effects b. small within-treatment variance, making it easier to see real treatment effects c. large within-treatment variance, making it difficult to see real treatment effects d. small between-treatment difference, making it difficult to see real treatment effects
Grading on a curve is technically known as __________________ grading
Fill in the blank(s) with correct word