A researcher is interested in examining the relationship between one's actual memory abilities and one's perception of how good his or her memory abilities are. Subjects in this study are given a study list of words and asked to remember these words after a short delay. They are also given a questionnaire and asked how good the subject thinks his or her memory is, where a high score means the subject thinks he or she has high memory abilities. The researcher finds a small but positive relationship between the memory test scores and the questionnaire scores.The results indicated a positive relationship between the variables that were measured. Explain what this means.
What will be an ideal response?
This means that people with a higher estimation of their memory abilities showed higher memory performance in the test.
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What is applied intelligence?
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If there is a significant main effect in a between groups factorial experiment with two independent variables, _____
a. the effect of one variable on the dependent variable is greater than the effect of the other variable b. the effect of one level of the independent variable on the dependent variable is different than the effect of the other level of that variable c. the effect of one level of the independent variable depends on which level of the other independent variable is present d. the presence of both independent variables multiplies their effect on the dependent variable