Which educational characteristics and challenges are virtually universal?
What will be an ideal response?
ANSWER: The two are (1) strong relationships between students' social-class origins and their success in school and (2) the educational challenges posed by multicultural populations.
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Having an infant with special needs usually is a cause for stress for everyone in the family due to the extra attention the child with special needs requires
a. True b. False
Indicate whether the following statements refer to internal validity or external validity. Does this experiment represent reality?
a. internal validity b. external validity.
David, a high school junior, did not fit a profile of the typical high school student very well. He was unusual in that he
a. was unduly influenced by his friends in his style of dress. b. dressed much the way his father did. c. aspired to be a surgeon, which is what his father was. d. wasn't concerned about what his friends thought of his career aspirations.
A psychologist was interested in gauging the success of a mood manipulation during one of her experiments. She had three groups of participants who underwent different types of mood induction: disgust mood induction, negative mood induction and positive mood induction. After the mood induction, participants were asked to endorse nine statements relating to their mood (on a 5-point Likert scale from 1 = disagree to 5 = agree): (1) When you’re smiling the whole world smiles with you, (2) I love the pretty flowers, (3) I could never touch a dead body, (4) I would never eat catfood, (5) If someone served me monkey brain soup I would vomit, (6) I feel fed up, (7) Bodily fluids are nasty, (8) I could not drink from a glass that I’d used to catch a spider, (9) I am a worthless piece of scum.
Part of the SPSS output is below. Which of the following statements best summarizes the output?
A. The type of mood induction had a significant effect on responses to all of the nine items.
B. The type of mood induction had a significant effect on responses to at least one of the nine items.
C. The type of mood induction had a significant effect on responses to more than half at least of the nine items.
D. The type of mood induction that a person had could be significantly determined from a linear combination of responses to the nine items.