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When to Use a t-test correct answers2 levels of 1 IV, scale DV When to use an ANOVA correct answers3+ levels of 1 IV or 2+ IVs, scale DV When to use a Correlation/Regression correct answers2+ scale variables ANOVA correct answersReduces type 1 error by doing just 1 test; needs a scale DV Omnibus ANOVA correct answersDetermines if there's a difference anywhere among the groups Between-Groups ANOVA correct answersBetween-groups design Repeated-Measure ANOVA correct answersWithin...

Piaget's overarching view correct answersdevelopment is constructive What gets "constructed"? correct answersMental structures/schemes Mental structures/shemes correct answersorganized mental representation and used to make sense of experience Child is continuously correct answersinteracting with the world and using schemes to make sense of the world Equilibrium correct answersgood match between schemes and world disequilibrium correct answersnot a good match adaptation corr...

Nature correct answersInborn, biological givens -based on genetic inheritance -individuals complete set of hereditary information Nurture correct answersPhysical and social world -influence biological and psychological development -environment Three of the most important contributions during children's first years are their correct answers-attentional patterns -use of language -play New Borns correct answersprefer things that move and make sounds; pay particular attention to moth...

what is the classification based on chromosomes, anatomy, etc. at birth? correct answerssex which approach suggests males and females are basically alike/differences are small? correct answerssocial constructionists beta bias in what year did women achieve the right to vote? correct answers1920 essentialists believe differences in males and females are rooted in biology correct answerstrue which court case legalized abortion in 1973 in the US? correct answersroe vs. wade author o...

For millions of women, the ___ is the most dangerous place they could be. correct answershome In the US, domestic violence costs more than ___ a year in medical costs alone. correct answers$1 billion ___% of women who visit a hospital emergency room do so because of domestic violence. correct answers22-35 At least one woman in ___ in the world has been beaten, coerced into sex, or otherwise abused in her lifetime by a member of her family. correct answersthree In Egypt, ___% of honor...

data correct answersinformation about different variables (ex. list of ages) data set correct answersthe collection of information relative to specific variables (ex. ask about age, major, race, etc.) data distribution correct answerslist of values associated with a variable in a data set (ex. all ages in a list) variable correct answersanything that can take on a different quality/quantity (ex. income) data points correct answersindividual pieces of information (ex. student...

inferential statistics correct answersdraws conclusions about the data collected descriptive statistics correct answerssummarizes and describes the data collected population correct answersthe entirety of a specified group sample correct answersa subset of the specified group parameter correct answerscharacteristic of a population statistic correct answerscharacteristic of a sample independent variable correct answerswhat the researcher manipulates (changes) variables correc...

Factitious Disorder correct answersProduction of physical symptoms, injury of diseases. AKA Munchausen Syndrome. Most common in those who spent a lot of time in the hospital as a child, those who hold grudges against the medical community or those who have worked as medical aids Conversion Disorder correct answersDisorder in which medically unexplained bodily symptoms impact sensory/motor function. Neurological-like symptoms with no neurological explanation. Somatic Symptom Disorder correc...

behavioral research correct answersgoal: to discover, among other things, how people perceive their world, and how they think and feel, how they change over time, how they learn and make decisions, and how they interact withothers empirical research correct answersresearch that is based on systematic collection and analysis of data data correct answersinformation collected through formal observation of measurement hindsight bias correct answersthe tendency to think that we could have pr...

statistics correct answersset of methods and rules for organizing and interpreting observations concerns: anxiety and value descriptive correct answerstype of statistic - summarize, organize, and simplify data inferential correct answerstype of statistic - techniques that allow us to study samples and make generalizations about the population sampling error correct answersamount of difference between a sample value and a population value that becomes an issue when trying to use a sampl...