What are the potential benefits of playing video games?
What will be an ideal response?
Playing video games is a social activity, fostering communication and in some cases creating a peer teaching opportunity. It is relaxing and can provide intellectual challenges. Finally, video games may enhance attentional and spatial skills in adults.
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The weapons effect is the tendency for aggression to increase as a result of the mere presence of a weapon
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Sometimes different experimenters find different results because of
a. chance. b. small sample sizes. c. "the cruel hand of fate." d. all of the above
The _____ is a measure of the proportion of variance in one of the variables that is accounted for by the other variable
a. Spearman rank-order correlation coefficient b. coefficient of determination c. point-biserial correlation coefficient d. Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient
Pomerantz and Portillo (2012) found that larger arrays of stimuli containing basic feature elements and more complex stimuli are easier to perceive than smaller basic arrays and stimuli. This is called ______.
A. the theory of unconscious inference B. the configural superiority effect C. the computational approach D. perception