According to the text, the most important component of an experiment for giving us confidence that our results are meaningful is
a. random sampling.
b. random assignment.
c. summation notation.
d. the manipulation of the dependent variable.
B
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What will be an ideal response?
The medial forebrain bundle makes connections between the a. mammillary bodies and the hippocampus
b. two cerebral hemispheres. c. midbrain and the limbic system. d. thalamus and the cerebral cortex.
Let’s say that scores on the NPI-16 are normally distributed in a population of college students. The distribution has a mean of 5 and variance of 3.24. What is the probability that a randomly chosen sample of 81 scores will have a mean of 5.264 or less?
a. .5583 b. .4417 c. .9066 d. .0934
Brittany Maynard was a young woman dying of brain cancer. She decided to end her own life with drugs prescribed by her doctor. Brittany's case is an example of ______.
A. physician-assisted suicide B. euthanasia C. mercy killing D. palliative care