Which of the following sets of data is likely to have the smallest standard deviation?
a. the distribution of SAT scores for students from your high school
b. the distribution of heights of students in an elementary school
c. the grade point averages of students from your high school's honors biology class
d. the amount that you and your friends pay for college tuition
C
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Which hormone in males do some scientists speculate may lead to differences in male and female brain structure, and later variations in gender-related behavior?
A. serotonin B. dopamine C. androgen D. oxytocin
"I thought about it and decided what to do.". Why would behaviorists reject that statement?
a. Behaviorists care about animal behavior and not human behavior b. Your thoughts did not cause the action, because events caused your thoughts. c. Behaviorists rely entirely on explanations in terms of brain activity. d. Behaviorists explain behavior in terms of unconscious thoughts, not conscious ones.
The belief that extraneous assumptions should be eliminated from explanations is called:
a. Scholasticism b. Occam’s razor c. nominalism d. realism
The chief advantage of learning over natural selection as a means of adapting to change is that learning _______
a. is faster b. is more enduring c. is less enduring d. does not affect all members of a species