Which measure of central tendency should an academic counselor use to describe a student's rank order in his/her classes?
a. the mean c. the mode
b. the median d. the deviation
B
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Dr. Feinstein is setting up a laboratory to research the human sexual response. Her research problem is likely to be
a. participant liberal bias. c. getting a representative sample. b. participant truthfulness. d. all of these.
According to Robert Sternberg's triarchic theory of intelligence, someone who is efficient at processing information and who performs well on conventional tests designed to measure reasoning and logical-mathematical abilities, should score high in:
a. creative intelligence b. practical intelligence c. all three areas of intelligence d. analytic intelligence
As we move from real-life situations to the laboratory to conduct research, we move in a direction of:
a. lesser precision. b. lesser relevance. c. lesser external validity. d. both lesser relevance and lesser external validity.