The textbook describes a study in which one group of participants was asked to determine whether working out a day before a tennis match made the player more likely to win, and another group of participants was asked to determine whether working out a day before a tennis match made a player more likely to lose. Consistent with the confirmation bias, participants in the group examining a connection between working out and winning were most likely to search for
a. information about how many players did not work out, and then lost their match.
b. information about how many players did not work out, and then won their match.
c. information about how many players worked out, and then lost their match.
d. information about how many players worked out, and then won their match.
d. information about how many players worked out, and then won their match.
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According to Piaget, learning involves children
a. receiving information passively. b. absorbing information imposed on them by teachers. c. participating in active discovery. d. comprehending information that is beyond their developmental level.
A common use of correlation is to determine evidence for a. criterion validity
b. face validity. c. a normative sample. d. a scatter plot.
Purtillo drew attention to how individuals cope with the "little deaths" throughout life. This teaches us that
a. the more deaths you experience, the better will be your coping skills b. coping with "little deaths" throughout life may be indicative of how one is likely to cope with the large crises involved in death itself c. there are only minimal differences between death and other types of stressors or losses d. all of these e. none of these
Researchers who have looked at changes with age in total amounts of daily REM sleep and NREM sleep have found that
a. the amount of REM sleep increases considerably over the years. b. NREM diminishes more sharply than REM sleep over the years. c. the amount of REM sleep decreases considerably over the years. d. REM sleep remains fairly constant over the years, but NREM increases slightly.