Walking across campus, Mary smiles or establishes eye contact with those individuals she recognizes. This is an example of what level of confirmation in a relationship?*
a. recognizing another's existence
b. acknowledging another person's thoughts, feelings, or actions
c. accepting another person's thoughts or feelings as valid
d. sharing the information you've learned about one person with another
a
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Suppose you hear someone you regard as unintelligent suggest a new idea. At first you ignore the idea, but later you forget who said it, and start to take it seriously. This tendency is known as the _________ effect
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Cynthia's mother gives her an apple each day and tells her that apples are "fruit.". However, one day, Cynthia's mother gives her an orange. She tells Cynthia this is also "fruit.". What happens to Cynthia's scheme of "fruit?"
a. She assimilates the new information about oranges into the existing scheme. b. She ignores the new information about oranges. c. She accommodates the information so that her scheme now includes apples and oranges. d. She eliminates the concept of apple and now her scheme of fruit only contains oranges.
If you have a directional hypothesis, how can you interpret the significance of the output that SPSS provides for an independent-samples t-test?
a. If the p-value that SPSS provides is ? .05, the relationship is significant. b. Multiply the p-value that SPSS provides by 2; if it is ? .05, the relationship is significant. c. Divide the p-value that SPSS provides in half; if it is ? .05, the relationship is significant. d. Divide the p-value that SPSS provides in half; if it is > .05, the relationship is significant.
Since we normally cannot have access to the full population of interest, researchers are faced with taking a representative sample of the population. Which of the following is NOT true of a representative sample?
a. One can only generalize from the sample to the population it adequately represents. b. The representative sample has to closely match the overall characteristics of the population of interest. c. A representative sample must include members of different racial groups, even when the target population is of one race. d. A representative sample is a way by which one can generalize to the population of interest without having access to the full population.