A researcher conducted a study of the relationship between the amount of television an individual watches and how fearful that individual is about becoming a victim of crime
She found that the more television an individual watched the more fearful that individual was about becoming a victim of crime. What type of correlation does this represent?
A) positive.
B) negative
C) causational
D) zero
A) positive A positive correlation between two variables means higher scores on one variable tend to be linked to higher scores on the second.
You might also like to view...
The term sociobiology ____?
a. ?is now an accepted part of evolutionary psychology b. ?has been absorbed by the cognitive psychologists and used in the term "sociocognitivism" c. ?is used at meetings of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society d. ?has such a negative connotation that it has been dropped from use e. ?was coined by William James
What type of theorist would most likely describe human cognitive development using the analogy of "mental software?"
a. An information-processing theorist b. An Eriksonian c. An operant conditioning theorist d. A social learning theorist
The arched back of a cat may be an expression of two motives (for example, to attack and to flee), which would be an example of which type of behavior?
a. displacement b. redirected behavior c. simultaneous ambivalent behavior d. successive ambivalent behavior
Which of the following is a type of heuristic?
a. an algorithm c. information retrieval b. hill-climbing d. trial and error