Operational definitions are MOST closely associated with which major advantage of the scientific approach?
a. commonsense approach
b. clarity and precision
c. intolerance of error
d. tolerance of error
B
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concept of a. word segmentation. b. syntactic bootstrapping. c. overregulation. d. prosody.
A within-subjects design is also known as the ______ design.
A. matched pair B. independent groups C. repeated measures D. between-groups
The first psychology laboratory was founded by __________
a. Wundt b. James c. Titchener d. Watson
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a. rational choice theory b. prospect theory c. rationalization theory d. optimization theory