John Platt’s strong inference refers to those hypotheses which permit scientists to . . .
a. Exclude plausible but wrong alternative interpretations of the data
b. Identify interpretations which are dead ends
c. Make relatively rapid scientific progress
d. All of the above
d. All of the above
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Your uncle returns home after visiting a sleep clinic. He says the sleep specialists diagnosed him as suffering from narcolepsy. Which of the following sets of symptoms probably led to his decision to seek an evaluation at the sleep clinic?
a. loud snoring and violent leg movements during sleep b. early morning waking and an inability to get back to sleep c. irresistible sleep attacks and sudden loss of muscle tone for brief periods of time d. inability to breathe and sleep at the same time and difficulty getting to sleep
Sensitive periods refer to the
a. patterns of physical development from conception to death. b. developmental sequence of one's temperament. c. years of aging characterized by marked physiological and psychological deterioration. d. times when individuals are most susceptible to certain environmental influences.
Your neighbor's 22-month-old son says the word "No!" fairly emphatically and quite a lot. Your neighbors were concerned that he might have oppositional-defiant disorder
Considering all that you know about toddler development, what do you think is actually happening? He is actually trying to say, "Go!" He likes to see how irritated he can make his parents. He has no idea of what the word "No" means. He says "No!" a lot because it reflects his budding sense of self.
Which of the following best describes a questionnaire with an open-ended question format?
a. observing people and recording their behavior either through filming or through written records b. participants are allowed to state their own responses following the question c. researchers spend a considerable amount of time among the people they wish to study, often by actually living among them d. participants are provided with specific responses to choose from