You have just read a story in the media that reports a correlation of .25 between two factors. The percent variance for this correlation would be
a. 6 percent.
b. 16 percent.
c. 46 percent.
d. 60 percent.
A
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a. ?Most people are unable to truly understand their feelings without professional guidance. b. ?Providing too much insight into a client’s problems ultimately slows down progress. c. ?Clients will improve when they come to realize the root of their problems. d. ?Taking responsibility for one’s own actions is the first step in the healing process.
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a. Try to remember partial cues, such as the length of the name or other related information. b. Say or write down everything you can remember that relates to the information you are seeking no matter how trivial. c. Go through the alphabet, trying each letter as the first sound of a name or word you are seeking. d. Recall the information chronologically as it was given in lecture in order to assure the accuracy of the information.
Which one of the following procedures is an appropriate way to control for order effects in a within-subjects experiment? Arrange so that each condition
a. follows every other condition an equal number of times b. occurs equally often in each ordinal position c. is presented once to each group d. occurs only once
According to Piaget, an individual may have a highly developed level of functioning for one cognitive skill but a much lower level for another cognitive skill. He refers to this phenomenon as
A. object permanence B. conservation C. horizontal decalage D. accommodation