According to John Stuart Mill, ________ create variations in observable phenomena that cause predictions to be probabilistic rather than certain.

a. primary laws
b. secondary laws
c. first principles
d. essences


b. secondary laws

Psychology

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Jesse is earning his Master's degree, and he is interested in having a career in which he will study population trends. Jesse is preparing for a career as a(n) ____

a. demographer b. psychometrician c. statistician d. ethnographer

Psychology

A repeated-measures ANOVA has SSwithin treatments = 26 and SSbetween subjects = 12 . For this analysis, what is the value for SSerror?

a. 12 c. 26 b. 14 d. 38

Psychology

Broca's area is located in the lobe, while Wernicke's area is located in the lobe

a. left frontal; left temporal b. left frontal; right frontal c. right frontal; left temporal d. right frontal; right temporal e. right temporal; left temporal

Psychology

A research study finds that 40-year-olds are better able to solve math problems than 80-year-olds. It is suspected that the differences in problem-solving ability result from the fact that 80-year-olds had fewer opportunities to study math and did not have access to calculators or computers. If true, the study has revealed:

a) experimenter bias. b) a placebo effect. c) age-related differences. d) cohort effects.

Psychology