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In a scholarly journal article where would you be most likely to find the purpose of the study or the researcher's hypothesis?
 
  a. the first paragraph of the introduction
  b. toward the end of the introduction
  c. the methods section
  d. there is no standard location for this information

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One reason it is difficult to conduct long-term studies of the same group of participants is that physical and psychological changes in the participants over time can become confounded with the independent variable(s) of the experiment.
 
  Researchers refer to this as the problem of
   
 a. maturation.
  b. education.
  c. regression artifact.
  d. statistical progression.

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A bivariate table
 
  A) is used infrequently.
  B) works with variables that have 2 - 5 categories and data at nominal or ordinal levels of measurement.
 
  C) is exactly the same as a scattergram.
  D) uses percentages exclusively.

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What part of a scholarly journal article should you read to get an overview of the research to determine if you want to read the entire article?
 
  a. abstract
  b. introduction
  c. methods
  d. discussion

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Which of the following pieces of information would NOT be included in a typical PsycINFO record?
 
  a. author(s)
  b. abstract
  c. source
  d. references

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