When colleges use high school grades and SAT or ACT scores to determine whether to admit a student, they are using the tests scores as a measure of the likelihood that a given student will succeed in college
This is related to which goal of science?
a. control
b. description
c. explanation
d. prediction
D
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Your good friend Agnes has difficulty reading road signs when she drives. What condition does she likely exhibit?
a. Her eyeballs are too short. c. She is farsighted. b. She has presbyopia. d. She is nearsighted.
Your aunt introduces you to the small dog she just adopted. In your experience, small dogs usually bark loudly and insistently, so you believe this dog will too. What would a psychologist call this reasoning?
A. theoretical conceptualizing B. experiential structuring C. beyond categorization D. category induction
Children's understanding of sarcasm
a. occurs only when a mocking or overly enthusiastic tone of voice is present. b. occurs only when a comment does not match the context of the comment. c. does not differ from adults' understanding of sarcasm. d. is well developed by the time children enter school.
Carol's high school has a requirement that all students must take a language course. Carol petitions to take C++ computer programming as her language course. Which argument is most effective for making the case that it is a language?
A. C++ is not understood by people who have not received extensive training. B. C++ is difficult to learn and requires large amounts of training to understand. C. Learning C++ isolates her from others, which is the purpose of language. D. C++ allows her to communicate to her computer and to other programmers.