False labor contractions can usually be recognized because they are more regular than contractions of real labor
a. True
b. False
b
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If every child lived in an equally good environment, what would happen to the heritability of behavior? a. Heritability would decrease
b. Heritability would increase. c. Heritability would remain the same. d. We cannot predict how heritability might change.
Which of the following examples would be most comparable to the word superiority effect if we were to apply this phenomenon to hearing?
a. You can identify a particular phoneme more readily if it is embedded in a word than if you hear that same phoneme in isolation. b. If you are right-handed, you can identify a spoken word more readily if it is spoken in your right ear, rather than your left ear. c. You can hear a spoken word more accurately when you see the written pattern at the same time, but this does not apply to smaller segments, such as individual letters. d. You can recognize and remember short words more readily than long words in a conversation.
Chapter 4 discussed a classic study by Wickens and his colleagues (1976) in which each of five groups of participants learned a series of words belonging to one category (e.g., "occupations" or "meats")
On the final trial, they all switched to words belonging to a new category ("fruits"). What did the results of this study show about the recall for this final set of words? a. Contrary to expectations, semantic similarity had no influence on recall. b. Contrary to expectations, participants explained that they stored these final words in terms of visual images. c. Participants in all five groups showed no release from proactive interference. d. Recall on the final set of words was most accurate when the previous items had belonged to a different semantic category.
A ______ is more likely with a nonparametric tests than with parametric tests.
A. Type I error B. bias error C. ad hoc error D. Type II error