A particular college has some very poor instructors. In a report to its regional accrediting agency, a college administrator used these words to describe the situation: "sub-optimal classroom practitioners." This description is an example of
a) syntax.
b) doublespeak.
c) the improper use of algorithms.
d) the representativeness heuristic.
B
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Dr. Vandepolder is conducting a study on American Midwest college students' radio-listening habits. He doesn't have the resources to survey all college students in the Midwest, so he uses census data to randomly select a group of several thousand students from Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois, and Minnesota to participate in the study. In this study, the group of all American Midwest college
students is called the _____, while the group randomly selected from Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois, and Minnesota is called the _____. a. sample; control group b. sample; population c. control group; population d. population; sample
Guided imagery involves
a. vividly imagining oneself in a calm and relaxing situation. b. tightening all the muscles in a given area of the body then relaxing them. c. deliberating doing things at a slower pace, visualizing each step in the process. d. an internal monologue of positive coping statements.
The meta-analysis of drug prevention programs funded by SAMSHA found that:
a. programs that were effective in demonstration projects were almost always effective in real-life settings. b. it is probably impossible to effectively implement prevention programs in real-life settings, regardless of how well they performed in demonstration projects. c. the effectiveness of programs in real-life settings is heavily dependent upon how well the program was implemented. d. it is too expensive to try to implement prevention programs in real-life settings.
In Atkinson and Shiffrin's model of LTM, all of the following are control processes, except
a. coding. c. rehearsal. b. sensory inhibition. d. retrieval strategies.