If a researcher decides to use the 0.01 level of significance rather than using the more conventional 0.05 level of significance, what type of error is more likely to be made? Why?

What will be an ideal response?


A Type II error or a miss is more likely to be made because the researcher is using a more stringent (restricted) alpha level.

Psychology

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a. Bullying other kids in the lunch line b. Spreading rumors about your boss c. Picking up your room d. Helping an elderly person across the street

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One form of cognitive therapy requires clients to keep extensive records, in which they record automatic thoughts and emotions as they experience them. They then write out rational responses to their automatic thoughts and emotions. This form of psychotherapy is called:

a. Beck's cognitive therapy b. rational-emotive therapy c. client-centered therapy d. Gestalt therapy

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What are the two key instincts described by Sigmund Freud?

a) sex and altruism b) sex and self-actualization c) sex and aggression/destruction d) aggression/destruction and self-actualization

Psychology

When Martha wants to feed her newborn son, she gently brushes her nipple against his cheek and, in the ________ reflex, he turns his head toward the side that was touched and immediately latches onto her breast.

A. Moro B. rooting C. sucking D. grasping

Psychology