If a distribution of scores is approximately symmetrical, then the _____ and are the
preferred descriptive statistics.
a. median; range
b. median; mean
c. mean; variance
d. mean; standard deviation
D
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Marcia is the coordinator of a hospital's on-line support group for the families of children who have a rare, incurable form of brain cancer called diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma. She is conducting a survey to evaluate the effectiveness of the support group. Given that members of the group live all over the world, her best choice for methodology is likely a(n) ____
a. personal interview b. e-mail questionnaire c. group questionnaire d. drop-off survey
Regarding methods of measuring memory, which of the following statements is FALSE?
a. Recognition can be amazingly accurate for pictures and photographs. b. Recall is usually superior to recognition. c. Witnesses, who disagree when they try to recall a suspect's height, weight, age, or eye color, often agree completely when they merely need to recognize the person. d. Many hundreds of people have been put in jail on the basis of mistaken eyewitness memories.
Janelle's usual bedtime is 8:30 P.M., and her parents strictly enforce this rule. One evening, Janelle is watching an educational program on the Discovery Channel, which ends at 9 P.M
She asks her parents if she can stay up this one night to watch the end of the program. Her parents agree to let her stay up as long as she gets up in time for school in the morning.Which type of parenting style are Janelle's parents demonstrating? authoritarian authoritative permissive preventive
In the forebrain, myelination proceeds a. simultaneously from inferior to superior and from posterior to anterior
b. simultaneously from superior to inferior and from anterior to posterior. c. first from posterior to anterior, then from inferior to superior. d. first from inferior to posterior, then from anterior to posterior.