If an experimenter accepts the alternative hypothesis, when in fact the null hypothesis is true, he
or she
A) has found significance B) has made a Type II error
C) must redo the entire experiment D) has made a Type I error
D
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After considering the research about gender comparisons in motivation, which of the following statements is most accurate?
a. Gender differences are relatively large in achievement motivation. b. Men and women give similar explanations for their success on a task. c. Men and women are similar in their levels of self-confidence. d. Gender differences in motivation explain a large portion of the gender differences in the workplace.CHAPTER 6Gender Comparisons in Social and Personality Characteristics
Psychologists have conducted studies in which the participants must detect a stimulus in a display of many other objects. According to this research, people usually detect
a. a combined feature more quickly than an isolated feature. b. a feature that is present more quickly than a feature that is absent. c. a stationary object more quickly than a moving object. d. a small object more quickly than a large object.
After damage to the right hemisphere, many people suffer what kind of loss?
a. control of the muscles on the right side of the body b. control of hunger and thirst c. ability to remember the names of objects d. ability to recognize emotional facial expressions
As an object gets closer, its visual angle becomes _______, and its retinal image gets ________
a. larger; smaller b. smaller; larger c. smaller; smaller d. larger; larger