Suppose you asked the following two questions of a group of 100 children: "How much time do your parents spend reading to you each day?" and "What are your grades in school?" You find that children whose parents read to them for more than one hour each day have better grades than children whose parents read to them for only a few minutes each day. What could you conclude from this pattern of data?
A. Better students cause their parents to spend more time reading to them.
B. Parental reading time and grades are positively correlated.
C. Reading by parents causes children to do better in school.
D. Parental reading time and grades are uncorrelated.
Answer: B
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a. fewer than half of Canadian adults believe that the federal government needs to take an active role in preventing family violence b. more than 90% of US residents report that they learned information from the media about the domestic-violence problem. c. college students living in countries such as India and Japan are no more likely than US college students to believe that a man's violence toward his wife is justifiable. d. there are no significant gender differences in college students' beliefs that a man's violence toward his wife is justifiable.
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A. Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder B. Autism spectrum disorder C. Oppositional defiant disorder D. Social anxiety disorder
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Shelby is 6 years old. During middle childhood, her physical growth will most likely
a. be steady until the adolescent growth spurt. b. show dramatic spurts. c. show rapid gains in height, but slow steady gains in weight. d. show rapid gains in weight, but slow steady gains in height.