A four-month-old baby is participating in an experiment in which he is repeatedly shown the photograph of a man frowning. After repeated exposures to this photograph, he loses interest
If the baby is like other infants who respond in similar situations, when a new photograph showing the same man with a frightened expression is presented he will
a. cry.
b. search for his mother.
c. look away.
d. show renewed interest.
Answer: d. show renewed interest.
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Laws to regulate immigration, such as the Immigration Law of 1924, were often based upon:
A. culture-free intelligence tests B. Yerkes' intelligence ranking of European races C. the finding that immigrants from northern Europe had the lowest IQ's D. the superior IQ of racial groups from eastern Europe
__________ refers to a person of normal intelligence who has an extraordinary ability and __________ refers to a person of low intelligence who has an extraordinary ability.
A. Savant; prodigy B. Genius; prodigy C. Savant; genius D. Top-down; bottom-up E. Prodigy; savant
Having just made what you feel is to be a Type II error, using an independent groups design and a t test analysis, which of the following might you do in the next experiment to reduce the probability of a Type II error?
a. increase N b. change to a correlated groups design c. try to reduce the variance by better experimental control d. all of these
Following graduation from college, Mark and Lisa got engaged and began looking for jobs in the same city. Their situation is typical for the majority of people in their age cohort, so it is called a(n):
a. normative transition b. idiosyncratic transition c. anticipated transition d. cultural transition