A 9-year-old declares, “I am the best skateboarder in my class, although there is one other guy just as good as I am.” This statement best illustrates the concept of __________
a) social competition
b) self-reflection
c) social comparison
d) self-esteem
Answer: c
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For her dissertation, Emily is interested in examining the effects of maternal alcohol consumption on the behavior of newborn infants. For ethical reasons, Emily cannot manipulate the amount of alcohol consumed by pregnant mothers; therefore, she should
a. conduct an experiment with randomly selected mothers and their infants. b. abandon this research topic and choose some other topic to investigate. c. conduct a correlational study with alcoholic mothers and their infants. d. conduct a single-subject study with one volunteer mother and her infant.
As factor A increases, factor B decreases. What type of correlation is this?
A) Negative B) Positive C) Equal D) None
A sample of n = 16 individuals is selected from a population with ? = 60 and ? = 6 and a treatment is administered to the sample. After treatment, the sample mean is M = 63. What is the value of Cohen's d for this sample?
A) ?0.33 B) ?0.50 C) ?2.00 D) ?3.00
The tendency is to hold objects in the ________ hand while performing more intricate operations on the objects with the ________ hand
a. dominant/nondominant b. dominant/dominant c. nondominant/dominant d. nondominant/nondominant