In the text there was a stem-and-leaf display showing the performance of students who attended class regularly and those who often skipped class. This display illustrated
a. that poor attendees did more poorly than good attendees.
b. the shape of the two distributions.
c. the dispersion of the two distributions.
d. all of the above
D
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a. deemphasize the legal significance of marriage b. celebrate the love that leads to marriage c. accept changes in feelings as a reason for divorce d. focus on the role performance of spouses
In an experiment, the "proportion of variance accounted for" is also called the
a. effect size. b. error reduction coefficient. c. confidence interval. d. standard error of the difference between means.
To maintain good nutrition, follow the Institute of Medicine's Food and Nutrition Board's (2002) most current guidelines. Pay special attention to selenium, folic acid, B12, and ____
a. vitamin D c. vitamin C b. vitamin A d. vitamin K
Roseanne claims that she can remember instances of childhood sexual abuse that started at 6 months of age
Why are most psychologists likely to be skeptical of this and other such claims? A) Because decay leads to almost immediate forgetting of newly learned information B) Because infantile amnesia makes it unlikely that these are true memories from that age C) Because proponents of the realism of such claims are charging less to treat the victims of this abuse than those who are dubious of the claims D) Repression inhibits the conscious recognition of traumatic events such as childhood sexual abuse