Which of the following statements is NOT cited in your text as a reason why categories are useful?
a. Categories provide definitions of groups of related objects.
b. Categories help us understand behaviors that we might otherwise find baffling.
c. Categories serve as a valuable tool for making inferences about things that belong to other categories.
d. Categories have been called "pointers to knowledge" because once you know an object's category, you know a lot of general things about it.
a
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a. 5 b. 10 c. 17 d. 21
Which statistic uses the mean and standard deviation to test for differences between two groups?
A. ANOVA B. correlation coefficient C. scatterplot D. t-test
If a person has homozygous genes for a particular trait or condition, what type of gene is
received from each parent? a. Only recessive genes from each parent b. Only dominant genes from each parent c. A recessive gene from the mother and a dominant gene from the father d. A dominant gene from the mother and a recessive gene from the father e. Either a recessive or dominant gene from each parent
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a) the ego b) the superego c) the id d) the ego ideal