Which of the following statements regarding teacher attitudes and behavior is not true?
a. Teachers tend to name boys as most skilled in mathematics despite minimal actual gender differences.
b. Teachers are equally likely to nominate boys and girls as their best students.
c. Teachers respond differently to students on the basis of sex as opposed to behavior.
d. Teachers tend to call on boys more than they call on girls.
B
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b. They give definitive proof of relationships between various developmental factors. c. They allow us to understand the similarities between species. d. They are scientifically irrefutable.
What is one difference between a correlation coefficient and an ANOVA?
A. Correlation coefficients find the strength of a relationship between variables. B. ANOVAs have a much more limited range of uses. C. Scatterplots are more useful at illustrating the findings of an ANOVA. D. Correlation coefficients are less helpful in discovering patterns in the data.
Nearly ____ percent of adolescent females and ____ percent of adolescent males report dieting to control their weight
a. 20; 10 b. 20; 20 c. 50; 20 d. 90; 50
Regarding short-term memory (STM), which of the following statements is TRUE?
a. STM has an unlimited storage capacity and can hold information for at least 30 minutes. b. It is very difficult to do more than one task at a time in STM. c. Unlike long-term memory, STM is rarely affected by interruption or displacement. d. Once information is placed in STM, it is permanently stored.