The "timing of puberty" effect on visual/spatial cognitive skills affects
a. neither girls nor boys.
b. girls but not boys.
c. boys but not girls.
d. boys and also girls.
D
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Trevor plans to study the relationship between people's responses to highly stressful situations and their overall health. He decides he must use correlational research, rather than experimental research, to investigate this problem. Trevor most likely chose a correlational method because correlational studies
a. tend to be more accurate than experiments. b. have higher internal validity than experiments when there are two dependent variables. c. can be used to study either positive or negative relationships, whereas experiments can only be used to study positive relationships. d. can be used to investigate factors that would be unethical to manipulate in an experimental study.
Research by Gentile et al. (2009) on media effects and helping behavior found that
a. people assigned their partner the easiest puzzles after playing a prosodies video game. b. people assigned their partner the easiest puzzles after playing a violent video game. c. people were more likely to answer more questions on a questionnaire after playing a prosodies video game. d. people were more likely to answer fewer questions on a questionnaire after playing a violent video game.
Myth: According to information processing theory, information can stay in short-term memory for several hours
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
A two-factor study compares two different treatment conditions (factor 1 ) for males and females (factor 2). In this study, the males have an average score of 20 in the first treatment and an average of 25 in the second. The females average 35 in the first treatment and 45 in the second. For this study, there is no interaction
Indicate whether the statement is true or false