What are the three sampling methods listed in the text?
What will be an ideal response?
• random selection
• convenience
• random assignment
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kinds of judgments about each of a series of words that will be presented to them, and they are not told that they will be tested for memory of the words. These instructions to the subjects are called a. a pilot test. b. an orienting task. c. intentional learning instructions. d. priming.
Dominique loves school but has struggled with a few of her recent tests. She does attend a study group at a local coffee shop, and also makes time to read her notes each night while relaxing in front of the television before bed. Which among the following is the best suggestion that may help Dominique improve her performance?
A. Dominique could benefit from a private tutor, since the study group is not helping her. B. Dominique could benefit from studying in the morning while she is having breakfast with her friends. C. Dominique could improve her focus and absorption in her course subjects if she had less diversion, like the television and the noise in a coffee shop. D. Dominique could change her study group peers to ensure that she only studies with those students who are achieving the highest scores in her classes.
According to Erikson, play ________
A) causes children to feel guilt because they are not able to master new tasks B) creates a small social organization of children who must cooperate to achieve common goals C) is not a valuable use of preschoolers’ time, which is better spent on academic forms of learning D) is primarily a nonsocial activity through which preschoolers learn cause-and-effect relationships
Correlations of +.77 and ?.77________
A) show the same direction of relationship between two variables B) cancel each other out, resulting in no correlation C) are equally strong D) reveal the same pattern of relationship between two variables