When two potentially effective independent variables are allowed to covary simultaneously, a __________ has occurred.

A. confounding
B. correlation
C. dependency
D. causal inference


A. confounding

Psychology

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The ability to distinguish the views of others from their own views in defining their identities typically begins to develop during ______________.

A. middle childhood B. adolescence C. early childhood D. young adulthood

Psychology

Accordingly to Case, once the schemes of a Piagetian stage are sufficiently automatic and integrated into an improved representation, children acquire __________ that permit them to think more effectively in a wide range of situations

A) abstract ideas B) primary systems C) discontinuous structures D) central conceptual structures

Psychology

Which does NOT contribute to how mnemonics work?

a. acquisition/encoding: structure for learning (encoding) the information b. retention: builds a durable record c. retrieval: provides effective retrieval cues d. confidence: overlearning increases our willingness to rely on memory

Psychology

A particular type of model within prototype theory that conceptualizes a prototype as representing the average or mean of a set of exemplars is called the:

A) central prototype model B) average variation model C) central tendency model D) attribute frequency model E) standard similarity model

Psychology