Professor Martinez wants to know if children who receive one-on-one instruction at school feel more self-confident than children who receive group instruction
To identify a causal relationship between type of instruction and self-confidence, Professor Martinez should
A) compare the number of hours teachers spend on group instruction with the number of hours they spend on individualized instruction.
B) observe a teacher's one-on-one interactions with several children in a laboratory school.
C) select a group of children who score high on the self-confidence measure and a second group who score low on the self-confidence measure and expose them to both types of instruction.
D) randomly assign half of the participants to group instruction and the other half to one-on-one instruction and compare measures of self-confidence for each group.
D
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A. directly observable B. observable actions C. not directly observable D. only behaviors performed by human beings
When John Locke referred to the mind of a human infant as like a tabula rasae, he meant that an infant's mind was
a. cursed with original sin that made it naturally evil. b. more like that of chimps than human adults. c. a set of connected living nerves. d. empty and to be written on through experience.
John believes that he is especially powerful or talented when this is not actually true. He is experiencing
a. depression. b. psychosis. c. grandiosity. d. hallucinations.
A researcher separates the participants into two groups. Group A receives an active medication, and Group B receives an empty capsule that looks and feels like the real medication. Group B is the a. treatment group
b. analog group. c. control group. d. experimental group.