A research sample in which participants are drawn from strata or categories in the same proportions as they are found in the larger population is:

A) cross-sectional
B) representative
C) ecological
D) experiential


B) representative

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a. technique in which the frequency and severity of various behaviors are recorded. b. use of ambiguous or unstructured stimuli in the assessment of personality. c. process of admitting experience into consciousness during organismic valuing. d. tendency to generalize a favorable or unfavorable first impression to unrelated details of personality.

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When Charlie was three years old, he fell off the slide at the playground and damaged the left hemisphere of his brain. Despite this injury, as Charlie grew older he still retained some of his language abilities because the right hemisphere of his brain took control over the language function. Which of the following mechanisms of brain-damage repair is apparent in this example?

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