What is the primary advantage of normalization of a skewed distribution?
A. eliminates negative numbers
B. easier comparability to other scales
C. greater reliability
D. greater validity
Answer: B
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How might modern military service reduce racial prejudice among soldiers of various races?
A. Modern warfare has specialized roles. Winning the battle may require trusting specialists of another race, thus reducing prejudice. B. It cannot. Modern warfare has specialized roles, which will increase prejudice if combatants must rely on specialist of another race. C. Soldiers from one nation will have reduced racial prejudice toward the other nation if defeated in combat by soldiers from that nation. D. It cannot. Military service has only been shown to increase racial prejudice.
In his experiment on conformity, Solomon Asch demonstrated that a group of at least ___ people was needed to create the pressure that would lead an unsuspecting subject to alter his or her behavior to be like the group
a. 2 b. 3 c. 4 d. 7
Which of the following is true about swaddling?
a. It delays physical development in children because their arms and legs cannot move when they are swaddled. b. It is a relatively new technique to soothe babies. c. Pediatricians think it is cruel, but parents do it anyway. d. In some traditional cultures, babies are swaddled to a cradle board.
According to Kübler-Ross, the terminally ill person who reaches bargaining
A) grasps the inevitability of death. B) denies the seriousness of the illness. C) distorts the truth about his or her condition. D) is despondent.