Lena is browsing social media and comes across a news story that she suspects is fake. According to the textbook, a good first step to check whether the news is fake is to
A. see how many other people on social media endorsed it.
B. ask friends on social media about it.
C. assess the story using the peripheral route.
D. search for information on the source or the author.
Answer: D
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a. atherosclerosis b. hemorrhagic stroke c. Alzheimer's disease d. head trauma
Which of the following is not an assumption of the Wilcoxon rank-sum test? a. The data are ratio, interval, or ordinal in scale—all of which must be converted to ranked (ordinal) data before conducting the test. b. The underlying distribution is not normal
c. The observations are independent. d. There is homogeneity of variance.
A subject learns a list of words. The next day, she is given a long list of words and asked to underline the ones she learned the day before. This type of task illustrates
a. serial recall. b. recognition. c. paired-associate learning. d. free recall.
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A. Jesse Gelsinger B. Albert Ax C. Arvid Carlsson D. Jennifer Doudna