Suppose you give a battery of various cognitive tests to a large group of people and the tests all correlate highly with one another. This would be evidence for:
a. teaching component skills
b. teaching that focuses on process rather than product
c. the idea that intelligence is a single general skill
d. the idea that intelligence depends on a collection of smaller component skills
C
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Criteria for how high a test's reliability must be are determined in part by the specific __________ of assessment
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A third grade teacher feels that vocabulary instruction will help her children improve their reading scores. Half of her class receives vocabulary instruction, while the other half has a library period. She will compare reading scores after four months. Suppose the group with vocabulary instruction ends up with statistically higher reading scores than those without vocabulary training. Assuming
that there are no problems of internal validity, the teacher should a. reject the null hypothesis. c. reject the experimental hypothesis. b. retain the null hypothesis. d. declare the hypothesis as proven.
Which of the following statements is true of sensory memory?
a. It can hold a limited amount of information. b. Information in it is in the form of concepts and rules. c. Information in it has been assigned meaning. d. It holds information for a very short period of time.
Verification is:
A. the confirmation that the dependent variable is changing in a predictable direction as the independent variable is systematically applied. B. the repetition of the observed predictions within the same study. C. the idea that if there is no effect attributable to the independent variable, the dependent variable's data path will remain unchanged. D. a way to predict a change in the desired direction in a data path as a result of the implementation of a dependent variable.