Dr. Mabote wants to determine if a group of participants reading under incandescent light
will read more pages of text in one hour than a group of participants reading under
fluorescent light.
She assigns students sitting at the front of the class to be in the
"incandescent light" condition and students at the back of the class to be in the
"fluorescent light" condition. In this experiment seating location is
a. the independent variable.
b. the dependent variable.
c. a confounding variable.
d. a valid variable.
e. an operational definition.
c. a confounding variable.
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a. ensure that gifted children are enrolled in gifted academic programs. b. try to detect early sensory or neurological problems. c. predict adult intelligence test scores. d. determine if infants in the current generation are more intelligent than infants from past generations.
Which aspects of emotional competence are thought to contribute to social competence?
What will be an ideal response?
For James, ____ "is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance."?
a. ?consciousness b. ?emotions c. ?learning d. ?habit e. ?religion
Research on the predictability of stress has shown that
A. unpredictable stressors have more impact than predictable ones. B. unpredictable stress causes less physiological arousal. C. predictability provides total protection against stressors. D. intense stressors are more predictable than mild stressors.