Lori thought she heard a gunshot while she was out walking but discovered it was only a car down the street backfiring. As she continued on her walk her heart stopped racing and her blood pressure returned to normal. Lori's blood pressure and heart rate returned to normal levels due to activity within her:
a. somatic nervous system
b. parasympathetic nervous system
c. sympathetic nervous system
d. cerebellum
B
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a. Items believed to be biased rarely are biased. b. Apparently biased test items actually decrease test score differences. c. Elimination of biased items does not eliminate test score differences. d. It is impossible to eliminate bias because every item is, in some way, biased.
A longitudinal study of 13,000 youth in the United States (Ott et al., 2011) found that the majority of sexual-minority youth are
a. bisexual. b. lesbian. c. gay. d. transgender.
The overall number of creative ideas a person has tends to increase the older a person gets.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
In a sample of n = 6 scores, the smallest score is X = 3, the largest score is X = 10, and the mean is M = 6. If the largest score is changed from X = 10 to X = 22, then what is the value of the new mean?
A) ?The mean is still M = 6. B) ?The mean is M = 7. C) ?The mean is M = 8. D) ?The mean is M=10.