In the 1970s, a 13-year-old girl was found locked up in a room, strapped to a potty chair. Because she had grown up in a world without human speech, researchers studied "Genie's" ability to acquire words, grammar, and pronunciation. This type of research is called ________________________ because a lot of data were gathered about a single case.

In addition to mental illness, what conditions must be met in most states for someone to be involuntarily committed?

What will be an ideal response?

The evoked potential method and the habituation method are similar because both methods

a. apply the psychophysiological recording of brain waves. b. tell whether the infant notices stimulus differences. c. are applicable only to infants, not to older people. d. avoid the use of fancy equipment.

Professor Venneti gives a psychology exam on the origins of intelligence. She gives a short answer question based on the IQ scores of a parent-child pair. In order to answer the question correctly, her students need to remember that __________.

A. a parent's high IQ does not necessarily cause a child to have a high IQ B. given these variables, the correlation will be positive C. given these variables, the correlation will be negative D. given these variables, the correlation will be uncorrelated

For any chi square, the degrees of freedom are equal to

a. the size of the sample b. sample size, minus 1 c. sample size, minus 2 d. none of these