Trabasso and Sperry (1985) found that, when subjects rated the importance of events in stories, the judged importance of an action was directly related to
a. its position in the paragraph.
b. the number of explicit references to it in the passage.
c. the importance of the character in the story who committed the action.
d. the number of causal connections associated with the action.
D
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a. poor testability b. too deterministic c. overemphasis on the influence of early childhood experiences d. provide a fragmented view of personality
Which measure of central tendency indicates the most frequently occurring score in a distribution?
a. mean b. median c. mode d. range
For every 1,000 births, about ____ birth(s) will be of monozygotic twins
a. 1 b. 4 c. 50 d. 300
Weinstein (2002) found that improving teaching for neglected students required changes by teachers in classrooms, as well as changes by school administrators, and changes in other aspects of the school. Which of Kelly's four ecological principles is involved in this example?
a. interdependence b. succession c. adaptation d. cycling of resources