A criticism of Piaget was that he did not distinguish competence from performance. This implies that
a. real competence might not be shown on particular tests.
b. a performance test typically overestimates competence.
c. the examiner might cheat on the scoring of performance.
d. application of psychic power can inflate performance.
A
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a. ?1.23 b. ?0.98 c. ?2.21 d. ?1.91
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a. 2.1% b. 13.6% c. 34.1% d. 68.2%%
If, after calculating an inferential statistic, we find that the results of our study are NOT
statistically significant, we can reasonably conclude that a. our study contained a major flaw. b. our results may have been due simply to chance. c. we did not ask the right research question. d. our efforts in conducting the research were not justified by the results we obtained. e. our hypothesis must be incorrect.