A vision scientist obtained a random sample of 56 individuals from a psychology department participant pool. From each participant, he obtained measures of attentional focus (x1), digit span (x2), list-learning efficiency (x3), motion aftereffect duration (x4), and time to complete a trail-making task (y). The sum of squares for y was 150. She submitted these results to a hierarchical regression with x1 and x3 entered on Step 1, then x2 and x4 added on Step 2. The sum of squares for the ? values was 36 on Step 1 and 42 on Step 2. Therefore, the change in explained variance (?R2) is ______.

a. .09
b. .05
c. .04
d. .28


Ans: C

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