Data can be eliminated from an experiment if
A) responses to certain levels of the independent fail to support your hypothesis.
B) responses fail to meet criteria established prior to the experiment.
C) participants seem uncooperative.
D) data should never be eliminated
B
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a. All focus on her use of defense mechanisms. b. All note her tendency to blame herself for troubles in her relationships. c. All see how the basic cause of the depression can be traced to early childhood experiences. d. All focus on the influence of her family as a causative agent in the development of her depression.
According to Campbell and Fiske, what types of evidence are required for a test to be meaningful?
a. reliability and validity b. content and construct c. convergent and divergent d. quantitative and qualitative
To investigate the role of genetic factors in personality, researchers administered the MMPI to pairs of identical twins who had been reared apart and pairs of nonidentical twins who had been reared together. Imagine that these researchers found that the identical twins reared apart were more similar on a given trait than the nonidentical twins reared together. This would be evidence that:
a. genetics has a larger influence than the environment on the expression of that particular trait b. the environment has a larger influence than genetics on the expression of that particular trait c. genetics and the environment are equally influential on the expression of that particular trait d. neither genetics nor the environment influences the expression of that particular trait
What general guidelines should be followed when researchers are writing literature reviews?
What will be an ideal response?