Cards in this guide (22)
Which perspective is most directly involved with the study of how brain development might affect behavior
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
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
Experiments can be used to show what
Causation can be proved by using an
A sample that uses only people who are easy to contact is called a
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
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
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
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