The sign on a correlation indicates the ____ of the relationship between the two variables it measures
a. quality
b. strength
c. power
d. direction
d
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Culture is defined in terms of the
a. level of education attained by most people in a specific group. b. degree of emphasis a community places on art and literature. c. values, beliefs, and practices shared by a specific group of people. d. similarity of people within a group.
Correlations are typically used to examine mean differences between groups
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Participants in one study were either frustrated or not frustrated. They then were given what they thought was an opportunity to administer electric shocks to another person. Sometimes this other person was the one who had frustrated them, and sometimes it was a stranger. The researchers found that
A. frustration increased aggression, but only against the person who frustrated the participants. B. frustration increased aggression against both the person who had frustrated the participants and the stranger. C. frustration led to an increase in aggression against the person who had frustrated the participants, but a decrease in aggression against the stranger. D. frustration did not affect aggression levels in this experiment.
In operant conditioning, reinforcers:
are easy to determine. diminish behaviors which they follow. strengthen behaviors which they follow. are sometimes pleasant and sometimes unpleasant.