Your basketball team is up by 50 points at halftime only to lose in the final seconds of the game due to your star player missing his free throw shots. If your teammate experienced increased arousal from the potential of being judged by the audience,
this could be described as arousal due to:
a. evaluation apprehension.
b. mere presence.
c. decreased self-awareness.
d. distraction.
Answer: A
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How do statistics can help a researcher determine how reliable a measure is?
What will be an ideal response?
On average, black and Hispanic students receive ________ grades and perform ________ on standardized achievement tests than white or Asian American students
a. higher/higher b. higher/lower c. lower/higher d. lower/lower
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A) nature becomes more important than nurture. B) the rate of DNA methylation decreases. C) epigenetics plays less of a factor as a determinant of gene expression. D) genes explain less of the individual differences in that behavioural trait.