Dr. Mischel is conducting an experiment with young children. He tells each child that they have a choice to make: They can have a cookie right now, OR they can wait ten minutes and get two cookies. Dr. Mischel appears to be measuring ____
a. the planning fallacy
b. the children's levels of abstract decision-making
c. whether the children are incremental theorists or entity theorists
d. the children's capacity to delay gratification
D
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For a two-tailed Wilcoxon matched-pairs signed-ranks T test with N = 28, what is the critical value?
a. 116 or higher b. 116 or lower c. 130 or higher d. 130 or lower
Whereas Freud focused on the scientific goal of ____, trait theorists focus on the goal of ____
a. ?prediction; control b. ?explanation; description c. ?control; explanation d. ?observation; prediction
During daylight hours, we are less likely to feel sleepy because the _____ gland does not produce _____
a) adrenal; adrenaline. b) hypothalamic; cortisol. c) SCN; acetylcholine. d) pineal; melatonin.
Correlation does not mean
a. quantification. b. experimentation. c. standardization. d. causation. e. covariation.