The abstract of a research paper should be
A) about 40 to 50 words long.
B) about 100 to 120 words long.
C) about 300 to 400 words long.
D) as long as necessary to fully describe the research.
B
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The chapter on working memory discussed several studies about individual differences in working memory. Which of the following students provides the best information about how working memory is related to academic skills?
a. Samantha: "People who have an unusually large capacity in their episodic buffer are likely to earn poor grades in school." b. Aroona: "People who are especially skilled on a task that uses the central executive are likely to score high in reading comprehension." c. Sanjay: "The research failed to support Baddeley's model; most academic tasks require the equal participation of all four components of working memory." d. James: "The research failed to support Baddeley's model; there is no relationship between central-executive skills and a wide variety of other measures that should be related to the central executive and a wide variety of academic skills."
The blind spot is
a. an area of the retina that is insensitive to visual stimulation. b. where the axons of ganglion cells converge and form the optic nerve. c. both a and b d. an area of the retina that is very sensitive to visual stimulation.
In a study of twins reared apart in the 1980s and 1990s, a sample of identical twins who were raised in separated environments produced scores on three measures of intelligence that were as similar to each other as a sample of twins who were raised together. Though the sample sizes were relatively small, this research has been repeated with approximately the same findings. We can have some confidence that these findings are valid because of the critical thinking principle of
A) replicability. B) falsifiability. C) Occam's Razor. D) extraordinary claims.
__________ adults report more depressive feelings than __________ adults
A) Young; middle-aged B) Middle-aged; young C) Middle-aged; older D) Male; female