Dabney is examining the relationship between family history of drug use and adolescent addiction. He selects a sample composed of teens from one local high school. Dabney's sample may not be generalizable because it is not
A. double-blind.
B. biased.
C. representative.
D. dependent.
Answer: C
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a. sound error. b. morpheme error. c. word error. d. pragmatic error.
When 80-year-old Marques is asked about his life, he is able to vividly recall his high school graduation party that occurred 60 years ago. Where was this information stored just before it was recalled by Marques?
a. Sensory memory b. Working memory c. Short-term memory d. Long-term memory
Setting your clock ten minutes fast will affect the _______ of the clock
a. reliability b. validity c. psychometrics d. speed
In their studies of fitness-relevant processing, Nairne and his colleagues found the following:
a) that processing words in any type of action scenario involving nature led to enhanced recall b) that processing words in terms of their survival value led to benefits similar to self-relevant processing c) benefit of encoding in terms of hunting only occurred when it was framed as a hunting contest d) benefit of encoding in terms of hunting only occurred when it was framed as hunting for survival