A group of 10-year-old boys are playing rough-house on the playground. One of the boys, Tom,

says that he doesn't want to do this anymore and runs over to the ball fields. All of the boys
follow him.

Which one of the following patterns of boys' same-sex play is being exhibited?
a. Exclusion groups
b. Boundary violations
c. Dominance hierarchies
d. Preference patterns


c. Dominance hierarchies

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If an entire population with ? = 60 and ? = 8 is transformed into z-scores, then the distribution of z-scores will have a mean of ___ and a standard deviation of ___

a. 0; 1 c. 0; 8 b. 60; 1 d. 60; 8 (unchanged)

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The small cup-shaped area in the middle of the retina that contains only cones, about 50,000 of them, is the

a. fovea. b. cornea. c. blind spot. d. lens.

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Images, concepts, and symbols are all examples of

a. morphemes. b. heuristics. c. semantics. d. internal representations.

Psychology

When comparing international assessments of students' achievement, the relative performance of U.S. twelfth graders was

A) better than the performance of U.S. eighth graders. B) below the international average in math and science. C) about the same as the performance of U.S. eighth graders. D) above the international average in math and science.

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