A new approach to driver training is tested and found to be effective in a sample of high school students taking a driver's education course. These students have a higher rate of passing their road tests on their first attempt compared to a control group of students taught using the older approach. Before suggesting that this method be used in driving schools that teach adults to drive, the
researcher wants to be sure that this method will be equally effective for adult student drivers. The researcher is concerned about
a. sample generalization.
b. variable representativeness.
c. a placebo effect.
d. internal validity.
A
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Rogers's clinical experience while teaching at the University of Wisconsin was mostly with:
a. disturbed children in a local orphanage. b. young, intelligent, highly verbal college students. c. deeply disturbed psychotics at a state institution. d. wealthy businessmen who were highly stressed.
Tom's parents have just been told that Tom has dyslexia. What does this mean?
a. He has impaired ability in mathematics. b. He has an intellectual disability. c. Tom is hyperactive. d. He has impaired ability in reading. e. He is intellectually or artistically gifted.
You don't really remember what you did at Thanksgiving two years ago, but you can give a fairly close description by using general information about holiday traditions, where you lived, and other schemas. This illustrates the:
a. cue-dependent nature of long-term memory b. transfer-appropriate nature of long-term memory c. reconstructive nature of long-term memory d. distributed nature of long-term memory
Gabe is an undergraduate at the local community college and has just taken the Undergraduate Stress Questionnaire and received a high score, which indicates that Gabe has a high rate of satisfaction with life, in general
Indicate whether the statement is true or false