A study on cognitive abilities compared data collected simultaneously from people of different ages. A major confounding variable in this type of study is ____.?
a. ?the typically high attrition rate
b. ?the Hawthorne effect
c. ?that there is no control group
d. ?that experiential differences might account for IQ score differences
ANSWER:
d
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a. shy and anxious. b. sociable and responsible. c. humorless and unassertive. d. impatient and competitive.
While Kohlberg's moral reasoning theory views moral reasoning as impartial, the moral emotion/intuition model views moral decisions as characterized by _____
Fill in the blank(s) with correct word
According to Binet, Tom, who is 10 years old, should answer more of the IQ test questions correctly than Anne who is 8 years old because Binet assumed intelligence
a. increases with age. c. both a & b. b. varies by gender. d. none of these.
A sample that includes important subgroups that the researchers want to be able to generalize their results to is called a _____
a) representative sample b) population sample c) study sample d) target sample