A researcher wants to understand what helps some students from disadvantaged backgrounds to excel throughout their school years while others do not. This researcher is planning to examine what?
a. Traits
b. Reliability
c. States
d. Validity
Ans: a
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When asked to explain macro-level social phenomena, children tend to respond with narratives that personalize the events around the goals and motives of a few people
a. True b. False
. State the critical value(s) for the following two-tailed t test at a .05 level of significance: t(?).
A. ±1.645 B. ±1.96 C. the same as for a two-tailed z test at a .05 level of significance D. ±1.96 and the same as for a two-tailed z test at a .05 level of significance
It would be most accurate to say that high self-esteem is the ______________ of good academic performance.
A. cause B. outcome C. precursor D. source
Kanner's research with a group of children he called "autistic" indicated that these children could be set apart from children with schizophrenia in each of the following ways EXCEPT
A) Children with schizophrenia withdrew from the world at some point in time, while children with autism had no social connections to begin with. B) Children with autism exhibited unique language patterns, such as echolalia. C) Children with schizophrenia exhibited bizarre, repetitive physical movement. D) Children with schizophrenia tended to deteriorate in their functioning over time, while children with autism did not.