Experiments allow researchers to ____
a. eliminate experimenter bias
b. answer questions about the existence of a relationship between two variables
c. observe naturally occurring behavior
d. answer cause-and-effect questions about the relationship between two variables
d
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Which of the following BEST qualifies as an example of prejudice?
a. Sarah believes that gay men tend to like fashion. Thus, when Sarah meets Tom, a gay friend of her brother's, she asks him who his favorite fashion designer is (instead of asking him, say, about sports or movies). b. A CEO of an advertising agency decides that she would like to employ more women. Thus, even though the agency receives applications from equally qualified men and women, far more women than men are hired. c. Vera believes that old people smell bad. When getting on the bus earlier this week, she therefore felt repulsed when she saw that the only available seat was next to an old person. d. Horace has never met a black person before, but he watches a lot of old movies, and he has learned from these movies to associate black people with aggression as well as athleticism.
Which of the following represents a contrast assumption?
a. assuming that novel terms must refer to something that you already know b. assuming that novel terms must refer to unfamiliar objects c. assuming that words refer to whole-objects, and not characteristics of objects d. assuming that similar objects must belong to the same category
The ______ affects the speed at which simultaneous bilinguals learn the phonics of two languages.
A. presence of older siblings B. size of the household C. preference for certain adults D. degree to which the languages differ
A criticism of career and technical education programs is that students
A) are much less likely to graduate from high school. B) have a more difficult time finding jobs after graduation. C) are more likely to be unemployed shortly after graduation. D) may be forced to make major career decisions very early in life and may make choices that are not optimal or just plain wrong.