Currently about what percent of school-age children in the United States are obese?
a. 5 percent
b. 19 percent
c. 31 percent
d. 48 percent
b
You might also like to view...
What additional information is obtained by measuring two individuals on an interval scale compared to an ordinal scale?
a. Whether the measurements are the same or different b. The direction of the difference c. The size of the difference d. None of the other options is correct
A researcher believes that if a new form of therapy works, it works only because the patient expects it to work. In psychology, this phenomenon is referred to as
a. the spontaneous-remission effect. b. placebo therapy. c. clinical ecology. d. behavioral reversal.
Which one of the following is TRUE when a distribution of scores is symmetric?
a. The mean, mode, and median will be the same. b. The mean will be greater than the median and the mode. c. The mode will be less than the mean and the median. d. The median will be different from the median and the mode.
Eleven-year-old Ryan has a difficult time making and keeping friends and has a history of becoming easily angered when he is confronted, thus making him unpopular with his peers
Devise a strategy that would increase Ryan's level of social competence. What will be an ideal response?