Justin is going through his own personal program of endurance training. In the first two weeks, he rewards himself with a quarter every day he runs a complete mile.
In the next two weeks, he gives himself a quarter for every two consecutive miles run. Next, he gives himself a quarter for every three consecutive miles, and so on, increasing every two weeks the number of miles he must run for each quarter. By the end of the fall semester, Justin can run 8 consecutive miles a day. This program is very much like which single-case research design?
a. A-B-A design
b. interaction design
c. multiple baseline design
d. changing criterion design
Which of the following statements is a definition of sampling error?
a) the difference in characteristics between the sample and the population sampled from
b) the difference in amount of people between the sample and the population sampled from
c) greatest when using simple random sampling than other sampling types
d) larger when you have a larger sample
The ratio level of measurement would include which of the following?
a) political affiliation
b) amount of books owned
c) order of finishing test
d) GRE score
When performing a t test for correlation coefficients the null hypothesis would state that
a. there is no correlation between the two variables in the population.
b. there is a significant correlation between the variables in the population.
c. the correlation between the two variables is not equal to zero.
d. the observed correlation between the two variables in the sample is zero.
In Father of the Bride II (1995), the main character George Banks goes through a midlife crisis as his wife and daughter are pregnant at the same time.
This popular movie could have contributed to which of the following popular myths in psychology:
a. Most People Use only 10 of Their Brain Power
b. Extrasensory Perception is a Well-Established Scientific Phenomenon
c. People with Schizophrenia Have Multiple Personalities
d. Most People Experience a Midlife Crisis in Their 40s or Early 50s
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