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Co-Vary correct answers When two variables "move together"; that is, when a person scores higher on one variable, he or she tends to score higher (or lower) on the other variable. Cross-Sectional study correct answers Study that takes measurements on one group of research participants at on...

What is true about extraneous variables? correct answers They only trick the researchers into misinterpreting the results when they relate to both the independent variable and the dependent variable. A researcher studies the relationship between consumption of fructose and diabetes. The researche...

Confirmation bias involves: a. ignoring evidence that confirms our prior beliefs. b. confirming the biased thinking of others. c. changing our beliefs in the face of contradictory evidence. d. searching for evidence that supports our beliefs while ignoring or discounting evidence that contradi...

Ben thinks that the consumption of foods contaminated with mercury (such as fish) during pregnancy can cause harm to women's offspring. He conducts a study to follow 100 women throughout pregnancy and for a year thereafter, assessing what they eat during pregnancy and their children's developm...

anecdote correct answers A brief interesting story about a specific case assertion correct answers a claim or argument biological plausibility correct answers an argument about a cause and effect relationship at least makes sense in terms of modern biological theories clinical trial correct...

A measure with the ability to produce similar results when repeated measurements are made under identical conditions has correct answers reliability When the measure being made consists of judgements or ratings of multiple observers, the degree of agreement among observers can be established by u...

Indicators of causality correct answers Association, precedence, plausibility, parsimony Types of Statistical tests correct answers Correlation, T-test, ANOVA, Chi-square Association correct answers must be present to infer causality Precedence correct answers cause comes before the effect ...

identify the type of explanation that explains how something works rather than describing why a specific attribute of a mechanism exists correct answers mechanistic explanation in the order of their occurrence, rank the steps that a child follows to acquire language as stated by Noam Chomsky in h...

Null Hypothesis correct answers Assumes the two variables have no meaningful relationship, only little bits of association that tend to appear at random. Alternative Hypothesis correct answers There are important differences in one variable as another variable changes, and we only really believe ...

A mother imagines running an experiment on her kids where all electronic devices are taken away to test whether that helps her kids get to sleep earlier in the evening. In this scenario: correct answers Taking away electronic devices is the independent variable, what time the kids get to sleep is th...

which of the following is typically the first activity in conducting scientific studies correct answers exploratory data collection and analysis when a brick is dropped accidentally on an individual's toe, the impact of the brick will stimulate pain receptors in the toe and therefore the indiv...

A relationship in which one variable directly or indirectly influences another is known as a _____. correct answers causal relationship Research in which a researcher makes no attempt to manipulate variables but observes them "as is" is known as _____. correct answers correlational research...