A researcher who administers a personality test to the same children every 3 years as they progress through school is conducting a(n) ________ study.
A. longitudinal
B. experimental
C. cross-sectional
D. chronological
Ans: A. longitudinal
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Which of the following statements is true?
a. A group that is confident is high in collective efficacy. b. Cohesion is based on attraction, and is separate and distinct from the group’s level of coordination and goal-orientation. c. Because task cohesion requires modification of individual tendencies, increases in task cohesion tend to reduce the level of social cohesiveness of the group. d. Collective efficacy is a group’s shared belief that it can successfully execute the actions required to be successful. e. All the statements listed are true.
White children are more likely to be placed in special education classes than African Americans.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
Imagine that you read about research in which students study a map of an imaginary college campus. Then they are instructed to mentally travel between two points on this map
According to their results, the mental travel time increases as the distance increases between the two points. These results seem to support a. the analog code. b. the propositional code. c. the alignment heuristic. d. the spatial framework model.
Which of the following is not considered to be support for Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences?
a. It is possible, with the right emphasis, to train anyone to excel in multiple areas. b. It is possible to find people who excel to the point of genius in some areas but not others. c. It is possible to identify a core of information-processing operations uniquely relevant to different skills. d. It is possible to show a loss or deficit in a specific ability due to neural damage while other abilities remain intact.