An experimenter conducts an experiment on the effects of a drug to control hallucinations
The experimenter
declares the results to be "statistically significant," which usually means that
a. even though appropriate statistics were used, no differences could be detected between the experimental and control groups.
b. the results have important implications for theory or practice.
c. differences of this size between the experimental and control groups would occur by chance only five times out of 100 (or less).
d. differences between the experimental and control groups were so large they could never occur by chance alone.
ANSWER: c
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Members of certain minority groups may have low academic achievement because __________.
A. they perceive that school success is relatively unimportant to future workplace success because discrimination will hamper advancement B. they are at a genetic disadvantage compared to members of other groups C. they lack the social, interpersonal, and communication skills to fully benefit from a formal education D. they have a greater number of parents who themselves never succeeded within the educational environment
Research on the anchoring and adjustment heuristic indicates that ____
a. people usually do not "adjust" enough away from their anchors b. people usually "adjust" too much away from their anchors c. people will not engage in this heuristic if they know that the anchors are arbitrary d. people will not engage in this heuristic if they know that it can lead to faulty decisions
Dr. Tanner is studying the effects of continuous pesticide exposure on auditory function. Using a rodent model, Dr. Tanner monitors the organ of Corti in rats with long-term pesticide exposure via two-photon microscopy. Based on his observations, he suspects that pesticides do indeed disrupt auditory function in the organ of Corti. What did Dr. Tanner observe??
a. ?Pesticide exposure caused the organ of Corti to fill with fluid, preventing the transmission of sound waves. b. ?Pesticide exposure caused the eustacian tube to constrict, restricting the passage of sound waves. c. ?Pesticide exposure caused the ossicles to fracture and fail to vibrate in response to sound waves. d. ?Pesticide exposure caused damage to hair cells, preventing them from bending in response to sound.
Cultural diversity can affect some of the interpersonal relationships between staff. One example noted in the textbook is:
a. East Indian male physicians treat European American patients with more respect than they treat patients from their own cultural background. b. Nurses of Asian or Latina backgrounds are sometimes reluctant to stand up to questionable behavior by European American doctors c. Male and female nurses are the only employees who do not have interpersonal relationship issues due to their relatively low status. d. There is no evidence of religion affecting decisions about health care, but it has been found to cause tensions between employees.