If a psychologist notes an association between the IQs of parents and their children, or between beauty and social popularity, or between anxiety and test performance, the two events are said to be correlated, which means
a. both events are randomly occurring.
b. both events are really unrelated.
c. one event caused the other.
d. the events are linked together in an orderly way.
D
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Which of the following is related to defensive attribution?
A. Jurors may think more about inadmissible evidence as a direct consequence of their attempts to follow the judge's request to suppress thoughts of it. B. When a smoker contracts lung cancer, jurors blame the cigarette manufacturer for elevating the nicotine level in its product, not the smoker for his or her habits. C. As active information processors, jurors desire to make a decision based on what they believe is just, not necessarily one based on legally relevant information. D. As the consequence of one's actions becomes more severe, we are likely to blame a person for it, thus making the incident somehow more controllable.
A quasi-independent or preexisting variable that is related to or characteristic of the personal attributes of a participant is called ______.
A. a participant variable B. an independent variable C. a manipulated variable D. a participant and independent variable
John lectures to his Tests and Measurements class on nominal scales, ordinal scales, interval scales, and ratio scales. What is he lecturing about?
A. scale levels B. levels of measurement C. measurement scales D. norm types
Which of the following statements is true?
a) It is impossible for dendritic branching to occur prenatally. b) Synaptogenesis and dendritic branching occur both prenatally and postnatally. c) Synaptogenesis only occurs prenatally and dendritic branching only occurs postnatally. d) Dendritic branching only occurs prenatally and synaptogenesis only occurs postnatally.