A teacher gives his class a brief quiz to assess their knowledge. On the basis of this test, he gives extra tuition to the pupils who finished in the lower 50% of the class. After one month, he gave them another quiz. He found that the pupils who received the extra tuition improved more than the other pupils. In fact, the other pupils scores went down. Suppose that the extra tuition had no effect. Why might the teacher have observed this difference in improvement?
a. Testing effect
b. Crossover effects
c. Differential mortality
d. Regression towards to the mean
d. Regression towards to the mean
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A. walking while supporting himself on furniture B. walking by himself C. sitting without support D. crawling
You almost strike a child chasing a ball across the street on your way home from work. You will see the child, react, experience bodily arousal, and then recognize your emotional state of fear, according to which theory of emotion?
a. James-Lange theory b. Cannon-Bard theory c. Schachter's cognitive theory d. attribution theory
Aversion techniques have been used with mixed results with a variety of sexual problems, including child molestation, exhibitionism, and rape
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
The results of psychological studies are published in professional journals because scientific information must always be
a. summarized into a principle or law. b. converted into an operational definition. c. validated by common sense. d. publicly available.