A researcher is studying the amount of sleep college students get each night. She notices that there is a lot of variability in the data,
with some students typically sleeping for around eight hours a night and some sleeping around five hours a night. One way to measure how spread out the data scores are is to use ________
a. the arithmetic mean.
b. meta-analysis.
c. inferential statistics.
d. the standard deviation.
Answer: d
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a. 5% more b. 15% more c. 20% more d. 50% more
The most effective intervention for victims of mass trauma includes all of the following EXCEPT promotion of:
a. sense of safety. b. hope. c. connectedness. d. forgiveness.
Any property of an organism, event, or something else that can take on different values is called _____
a. an operational definition b. data c. a variable d. a case study
Imagine you are hosting a large party. You have invited people with each of the personality disorders. Which ones will accept your invitation, and which will refuse your invitation? Why?
What will be an ideal response?