A study of U.S. achievement might rank one state as first in educating children by citing the shrinking gap in minority and white students' scores. A critic might say "But that's misleading." Which of the following is a research term suggesting misleading research findings?
A) interaction
B) artifact
C) factorial
D) modal
Ans: B
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A) inhibit B) cause C) transform D) multiply
"A child's ability to behave intelligently may vary considerably depending on the particular context, skills, and cognitive processes required by a given task." This statement is consistent with three of the following conceptualizations of intelligence. With which one is it least consistent?
a. Sternberg's theory of successful intelligence b. Cattell's concept of fluid intelligence c. The concept of distributed intelligence d. Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences
A psychologist was interested in whether the amount of news people watch predicts how depressed they are. Based on the output, is news exposure a significant predictor of depression?
A. No, because the bootstrap significance value of news exposure is greater than .05. B. Yes, because the p-value for news exposure is .039, which is less than .05. C. Yes, because the bootstrapped confidence interval for news exposure contains zero. D. No, because the confidence interval fornews exposure does not contain zero.
Recognition and acceptance of what is true about yourself is called ________.
A. self-acceptance B. self-reality C. self-expectancy D. self-esteem