According to the article Please Don't Depend on Me about nursing home residents, the effect size for the differences between resident's dependent and independent behaviors was:
(a) .11
(b) .39
(c) .78
(d) .95
B
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c. Radiation alters activity in the brain areas responsible for hunger. d. They associate the last food they ate with nausea.
The best way to test cause-and-effect relationships is with a(n) ____
a. case study c. correlational study b. placebo d. experiment
If a researcher reported for a one-tailed single-sample t test that t(14) = 2.25, then a. p < 0.025. b. p < 0.05
c. p < 0.01. d. p < 0.001.
Researchers who develop multiple-item measures of a psychological construct sometimes use negatively worded items, that is, items that must be recoded before scoring. This approach is:
A) a useful technique for avoiding a "yay saying" response bias B) usually a mistake because people have difficulty processing negations C) only useful after one has exhausted a pool of positively worded questions D) virtually never used anymore because it creates statistical artifacts