What do scientists call a tentative statement about cause-and-effect relations between events?


Answer: A hypothesis

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The results of a two-factor analysis of variance produce df = 1, 30 for the F-ratio for factor A, and df = 2, 30 for the F-ratio for the AxB interaction. Based on this information, how many levels of factor B were compared in the study?

a. 1 b. 2 c. 3 d. Cannot be determined without additional information

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Friends of your family are in need of help regarding their daughter. She is being verbally bullied on the bus on her way to and from school. Her parents come to you for help because they know you are in a child development class

What would you tell her parents about bullying? They are very interested in why some children suffer the fate of being victims. They also want to know if there is anything they can do, or have their daughter do, to improve her relations with her peers. What will be an ideal response?

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During which stage of Freud's psychosexual development of personality did Freud claim that little boys and girls, respectively, experience Oedipus and Electra complexes?

A. The oral stage B. The anal stage C. The phallic stage D. The genital stage

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Different subtypes of ADHD include all of the following EXCEPT

A) inattentive type. B) hyperactive/Impulsive type. C) hyper-attentive type. D) combined type.

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