What is a "spurious" relationship?
What will be an ideal response
one in which there is a strong correlation, though the strength of that correlation may be caused by a third, unidentified variable
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Which theory, developed by the psychologist John B. Watson, claims that human behavior is not instinctive but learned within a social environment?
a. behaviorism b. biological psychology c. evolutionary psychology d. naturalism
A scarcity intepretation of the origin and evolution of stratification holds that it
a. emerges when labor becomes scarce b. promotes the efficient functioning of society c. results when greater population pressure leads to increasingly private forms of landownership d. none of these e. all of these
According to the text, the Federal Drug Administration tests new drugs based on the assumption that the
a. sample has not been selected according to EPSEM. b. null hypothesis ("the drug is not effective") is true. c. level of measurement is less than ordinal. d. sample is neither biased nor efficient.
(As other kids approached) "The (homeless) kids grabbed their pants and pulled them down several inches to mimic the large baggy low-riding pants of the gangbanger (and) turned their baseball caps around so brim in back…"
a. this is example of covering. b. this is example of verbal denigration. c. this is example of physical posturing. d. this is example of forging friendships.