Adolescents and emerging adults’ ability to complete computational problems such as 12 times 2 quickly without writing them down and with little cognitive effort is referred to as __________
a) mnemonics
b) habit
c) automaticity
d) organization
Answer: c
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A. Reaction formation B. Denial C. Repression D. Undoing
Rich's first psychology exam score is +1 standard deviation from the mean in a normal distribution. The test has a mean of 60 and a standard deviation of 6 . Rich's percentile rank would be approximately:
a. 70%. b. 84%. c. 66%. d. none of the above.
Consider the following two American adages, which seem to contradict one another: "Birds of a feather flock together" and "opposites attract." The authors of the textbook would probably say that ____
a. this contradiction is an anomaly since Americans tend to be extremely single-minded in their "common sense" views about social psychology b. most people in the U.S. probably believe one of these adages to be true—but not both—since most people have very clear personal theories about social psychology c. the contradiction is not surprising at all, since "common sense" theories are often poorly defined, i.e., most people would probably say that both of these things are true (if you asked them at different times) d. most people would not see the contradiction if it were pointed out to them, since the average person is not a strong logical thinker
Which is the distribution of all possible sample means for all possible samples of a particular size from a population?
A. distribution of population means B. distribution of sample means C. distribution of standard deviation D. distribution of sampling error