Weinstein's study of instructional methods in a high school compared student performance in one year with the performance of similar students in the prior two years. This illustrates what quantitative method?
a. randomized field experiment
b. quantitative observation
c. epidemiology
d. nonequivalent comparison group design
a
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a. ?Gall b. ?Spurzheim c. ?Galvani d. ?Fritsch e. ?Hall
According to Anne Treisman's feature-integration theory,
a. distributed attention uses parallel search through the visual field. b. people first focus selective attention on important parts of the stimulus. c. focused attention is a relatively low-level kind of attention; people can quickly perform two focused-attention tasks simultaneously. d. people use focused attention for vision, and they use distributed attention for hearing.
The increase in growth after some factor, such as illness or poor nutrition, has disrupted the expected, normal growth rate is called
a. catch-up growth. c. lagging-up growth. b. lagging-down growth. d. resurgent growth.
Results of a meta-analysis of 65 experiments examining the effectiveness of the cognitive interview suggest the cognitive interview
A. diminishes the likelihood of correct recall. B. increases correct recall. C. increases correct recall, but also increases the recall of incorrect details. D. decreases recall of incorrect details and increases correct recall overall.