Which of the following has NOT been demonstrated through scientific research?
a. Rats raised in enriched environments have more synapses than rats raised in impoverished environments.
b. Kittens deprived of visual stimulation in one eye early in life become permanently blind in that eye.
c. After listening to classical music, college students show increased performance on some tasks.
d. Young infants exposed to classical music show higher cognitive performance in preschool.
D
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What words are most illustrative of experiments?
A. cause, effect B. individual, unique C. relationship, test D. predicting, correlation
Suppose you draw a map of a familiar street in your neighborhood. You draw all the houses an equal distance from the street, even though some houses are clearly closer to the street than others. Your error is an example of
a. the 90-degree angle heuristic. b. the spatial framework model. c. the symmetry heuristic. d. the alignment heuristic.
Dr. Paulus conducts a study that compares the success of two 8-week weight-loss regimens. She uses statistics to compare the mean number of pounds lost by participants in each condition and comes up with a p-value of .08 . What is the safest conclusion for her to draw?
a. The results of the study are statistically significant. b. The difference in mean weight loss between groups may have been caused by chance alone. c. The difference in mean weight loss between groups was too great to have been a chance finding. d. One could expect similar levels of weight loss in the population at large.
What kind of psychologist is most likely to analyze the reliability of eyewitness testimony?
a. Clinical b. Cognitive c. Forensic d. Behavioral