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Which perspective is most directly involved with the study of how brain development might affect behavior

biopsychlogy

Which question is most important to developmental psychology

how much do parents influence who a child becomes

The nature-nurture question asks whether

A person's genres or upbringing are more important. :)

Which question is most important to humanistic and positive psychology

Type your answer here... What do people need to be happy?

Which is most clearly an example of categorical data

Male or Female

Which key difference do experiments have that correlation studies do not have

A treatment is imposed,

ex.)

making the participants take a certain medicine instead of just allowing them to do what they please and see how they heal.

Which question is most important to biopsychology

How does brain chemistry affect how we feel and act

The study of behavior and mental processes is central to

Psychology

Experiments can be used to show what

Causation

Causation can be proved by using an

experiment.

A sample that uses only people who are easy to contact is called a

... convenience sample.

A random sample should be taken from

A random sample should be taken from an entire population.

In a survey on mens' attitudes towards women what would cause interviewer-induced bias

If all of the interviewers are women

An example of a hidden variable would be

Bald people who wear diapers tend to cry more often than other people

Under coverage may result from a

Convenience sample

A relationship between two variables or sets of data is called

Correlation

* * * * *

That is simply not true. Consider the coordinates of a circle. There is obviously a very strong relationship between the x coordinate and the y coordinate. But the correlation is not just small, but 0.

The correlation between two variables is a measure of the linear relationship between them. But there can be non-linear relationships which will not necessarily be reflected by any correlation.

What is shown on a scatter plot when the points show no pattern

randomness of data

In what way is the odyssey an epic

It has characters that change from cowards to hero's over the course of the story

An experiment is designed to compare the differences in health outcomes between people who are visited in the hospital by therapy cats and people who are not. Which of these is the independent variabl

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Which scenario is best illustrates the concept of illusory correlation


A person believes cell phones cause cancer despite scientific studies finding no correlation between them.

If people who eat a sugary chocolate cereal for breakfast have a lower rate of cancer this shows that

A. We should all eat less of the cereal

B. Eating the cereal lowers your cancer rate

C. We should all eat more of the cereal

D. The cereal might ( or might not) be the cause of a lower cancer rate

When you rate their depression on a scale from 1-10. their response are what in your study

Variable

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