According to the article Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Ad? about fear appeals in advertising, if a piece of
research reports a statistical test in which the outcome is
p < .065 this finding is considered
(a) statistically significant
(b) close enough so that it is rounded up to p < .05 in the study
(c) wrong, no statistic can find a level higher than p < .01
(d) not significant
D
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A) Competent or incompetent. B) Attractive or unattractive. C) Popular or unpopular. D) Athletic or uncoordinated.
Compare schizophrenia and the "other psychotic disorders" (schizophreniform, schizoaffective disorder, delusional disorder, folie à deux, brief psychotic disorder) in terms of symptoms, duration, and outcome
What will be an ideal response?
When Savage-Rumbaugh and colleagues compared the language performance of Kanzi,
a pygmy chimpanzee, with a 2-year-old human, they found that a. Kanzi's syntax was less complex, but his vocabulary was the same. b. the 2-year-old performed better on novel commands. c. they performed equally well. d. Kanzi's performance was better for novel forms of command. e. the 2-year-old had a larger vocabulary.
Recall that when Solomon Asch (1955) conducted an experiment in which six confederates gave the wrong judgment about the lengths of lines and in which a seventh confederate gave the correct judgment,
participants' normative conformity dropped drastically. These findings support the importance of ________ in creating conformity. a. a unanimous group b. normative pressures c. immediacy d. strength