Tiffany is conducting an experiment. She is interested in how fifth-grade teachers can motivate boys to read more. With the approval of her state's Board of Education, she is able to attend the annual conference of teachers and have the fifth-grade teachers complete her survey instrument. In this study, what would we consider the fifth-grade teachers at the conference?
What will be an ideal response?
The sample
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Wing Tung is reading his textbook for history class. At the end of each paragraph, he stops and asks himself what the paragraph was about. Once he feels like he knows that, he goes on. Wing Tung is using ____ to improve his thinking
a. meta-cognition b. contamination c. conjunction d. attribution
Gardner and Steinberg (2005) arranged a study in which adolescents and older adults played a simulated driving game either alone or with peers. The researchers measured risky behaviour in terms of the number of crashes that occurred during the game. They found that the presence of peers:
A) greatly increased crashes for both age groups. B) significantly decreased crashes for both age groups. C) greatly increased crashes for adolescents but significantly decreased crashes for older adults. D) greatly increased crashes for adolescents but had little effect for older adults.
Emotions are important because they
A) help adolescents interact more effectively with other people. B) help adolescents prepare for the future, shaping upcoming behavior. C) prepare adolescents for action. D) all of the above.
Which of the following is the most probable explanation for the difference in the apparent pattern of decline in IQ from cross-sectional and longitudinal studies?
a. Older cohorts in cross-sectional studies have less education than do younger cohorts. b. The older samples in cross-sectional studies include more ill subjects. c. Declines in midlife were only observed in the cohort born between 1910 and 1920. d. The longitudinal samples have been more representative of the overall population than have the samples studied in the major cross-sectional studies.