According to the article Reach for the Sky about peoples' estimations of their own physical ability, a factor which was found to make a difference in quality of task performance estimation was:
(a) gender
(b) age
(c) height
(d) IQ
B
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Sapna is interested in the influence of nutrition on reaction time. She assigns participants to eat a salad and fruit for dinner every day for a week or to eat fast food each day. She then brings participants into the lab and asks them to push a button on a keyboard as fast as they can every time they hear a particular sound. What are the operational definitions of the variables in Sapna's study?
a. nutrition? reaction time b. nutrition? whether participants eat a salad or fast food c. whether participants eat salad or fast food? how quickly they push the button when they hear the sound d. whether participants eat salad or fast food? reaction time
Aisha wants to study how individuals interact with and influence each other. She should probably go into ____
a. ?social psychology b. ?developmental psychology c. ?cross-cultural psychology d. ?personality psychology
Milgram's study on obedience has been criticized on the basis of _____________
a. methodological weaknesses b. inability to replicate it c. lack of real-life application d. ethics
In comparison to adults:
a. neonates sleep about 10 percent longer. b. neonates sleep less, but it's broken into small segments across 24-hour periods. c. neonates sleep about twice as much per day. d. neonates spend significantly less time in REM sleep.