Cameron wishes to correlate college football team rankings at the end of this year's football season with the rankings from the previous year. Which correlation coefficient should Cameron use?
a. Spearman rho
b. phi coefficient
c. point-biserial correlation
d. any of the above
a
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attributions for the low grade on the essay illustrate a. the actor-observer bias. b. defensive attributions. c. the self-serving bias. d. cognitive dissonance.
Who is likely to have the most difficult time coping with the death of his wife?
A. Fifty-year old Andrew B. Sixty-year old Hossein C. Sixty-five year old Clarence D. Seventy-year old Jonah
“Birds have wings” will be verified faster than “Birds have blood,” because:
a. activation spreads more quickly between related nodes. b. more general characteristics are always more quickly mediated. c. more general characteristics are often primed by sentence activation. d. activation does not spread across categories.
The mean worldview involves
a. overestimating one's chances of being involved in a violent incident. b. stereotyping sexual, racial, or ethnic roles. c. concluding that your beliefs are typical of the "average" person watching TV. d. reducing cognitive dissonance through group contact.