The variation of the population is reflected by:
a. standard deviation.
b. reliability.
c. mean.
d. confidence interval.
A
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Williams and Ceci (2015) sought to determine if gender biases exist in academic hiring practices. They studied almost 1,000 professors in a mock hiring situation in which each professor read the files of several job applicants and then rank-ordered the applicants in terms of most-to-least qualified. What the professors did not know was that the gender of the job applicants was randomly assigned
to the professors. That is, if one professor read that job applicant A was a woman, another professor read that the same job applicant A was a man. As a result, an average rating of each applicant could be compared when that applicant was presented as a male and as a female. The authors reported that: A) academic professors had a bias for hiring male applicants. B) academic professors had a bias for hiring female applicants. C) gender biases existed for the hard sciences such as biology, but not for the social sciences. D) no systematic gender biases were observed among the academic professors.
According to network theory, if someone is depressed and wants to feel better, they should:
a. go find people who are happy and having a good time. b. find folks who are feeling similarly so that one can feel they have company. c. look for something physical to do. d. think about it until the reason for the depression is realized.
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Indicate whether the statement is true or false
At preschool, Jace frequently watches Keagan hit other children and take their toys. Jace notices that each time Keagan engages in this behavior, the teacher makes him give the toy back and sit in a time out. Jace has decided he would rather patiently waits his turn for toys. Jace is demonstrating the concept of ______.
A. observational learning B. operant conditioning C. negative reinforcement D. reciprocal determinism