Explain what it means to find the "best-fit line" for a set of data.
What will be an ideal response?
The best-fit line for a set of data is the line that comes the closest to the most data points in a scatterplot of the data. The closer the line comes to the data points overall, the better the linear equation will describe the data.
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On the positive side, taste-aversion learning may help us:
A. develop our taste for exotic foods B. survive by avoiding plants or poisons that are harmful or lethal C. discern foods that have poor nutritional value D. remember what foods we do not prefer
Describe each of the "big five" personality traits.
What will be an ideal response?
Katrina receives a 740 on her math SAT. She decides to take the SAT again and receives a 720. The reason the scores are so similar is because the SAT has high ____.?
a. ?statistical reliability b. ?statistical validity c. ?objectivity d. ?predictability
The owner of a store that buys and sells used books has just purchased one written by a Gestalt psychologist. The book was is most likely about:
a. a set of learned principles of perception b. psychoanalysis c. a set of innate principles of perception d. natural selection