In the linear regression equation, Y = a + bx, “a” represents ______.
A. the predicted value of y
B. the y-intercept
C. slope
D. Pearson’s r
B. the y-intercept
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As the frail older adult population has increased in numbers, the government has shifted its priorities and began developing programs aimed at
a. long-term health care needs. b. poverty alleviation. c. older adults living in urban communities. d. long-term residential care.
Paul Collier (2007) discussed reasons that aid should be sent to the poorest
countries. These reasons included A. Doing away with corrupt governments and civil unrest. B. The moral and ethical reasons for distributing aid. C. Creating institutions that will develop civic decision-making. D. Helping with local infrastructure projects.
Which of the following is NOT an ethical violation with regard to assessment?
A) ?Administering the WAIS-IV, an intelligence test, to determine whether your client has schizophrenia and major depression. B) ?Administering, scoring, and interpreting the WAIS-IV at your practicum site with no training besides reading an extensive summary of its purpose in your textbook in one of your courses. C) ?Giving photocopies of the test protocols-including questions, correct responses, raw scores, and standard scores-to the client as part of the comprehensive interpretive report. D) ?After informing the client that you are supervised by a licensed practitioner, you break confidentiality by sharing testing data-including raw scores and standard scores-with your supervisor during your weekly supervision session.
One of the advantages of experiments over other research designs is that experiments:
a. reduce the likelihood of experimenter effects occurring. b. offer researchers access to large samples of people. c. offer researchers the most advantageous position from which to infer causal relationships between variables. d. give researchers access to people, such as the deceased, who are inaccessible to other forms of research.