Social research is ____, meaning that much of it is concerned with developing, exploring, or testing the ideas that social researchers have about how the world operates
a. theoretical
b. empirical
c. probabilistic
d. causal
a
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a. people with depression performed significantly worse than people without depression. b. people with depression actually performed significantly better than people with depression. c. there was no difference in the performance of the two groups, once the researchers corrected for the fact that the depressed group had lower vocabulary skills. d. people with depression tended to transform the stimuli into visual patterns that activated the visuospatial sketchpad
Describe the etiology and symptoms of Huntington's disease and of Parkinson's disease. How do these diseases of the basal ganglia differ from one another?
What will be an ideal response?
Fred is making his famous French pastries for a friend's upcoming party. Because the pastries must be perfect, Fred needs to do remember to do each step of the complicated recipe in order. What part of Fred's memory will work on this aspect of baking?
A. phonological loop B. rehearsal module C. visual-spatial sketchpad D. episodic buffer
Dr. Pierce is designing an evaluation tool to determine the effects of air quality on an individual's performance while completing a task. He wants to ensure that he evaluates the effects of air quality rather than other variables (such as how instructions were communicated) when he measures changes. Therefore, Dr. Pierce carefully considers how to ensure the _____ of his evaluation tool.
a. validity b. standardization c. internal consistency d. reliability