According to Holyoak's theory, experience with the fortress problem will help a person solve the tumor problem
a. in all cases.
b. only if the person finds correspondences between the original problem and the transfer problem.
c. only if the original problem immediately precedes the transfer problem.
d. only if the instructions are similar.
Suppose there is a correlation of +0.87 between the length of time a person is in prison and the amount of aggression the person displays on a psychological inventory. This means that spending a longer amount of time in prison causes people to become more aggressive.
a. True
b. False
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Although the participants in some quasi-experimental designs can be individuals or groups of individuals, in regression-discontinuity studies, they can only be individuals.
a. True
b. False
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__________ refers to actual replicability of experiments.
a. Statistical reliability
b. Experimental reliability
c. Conceptual replication
d. Verification
A researcher obtained a correlation of r = +0.62 between the amount of time spent watching television and level of blood cholesterol. This means that there is a general tendency for people who watch more television also to have higher blood cholesterol.
a. True
b. False
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If there is a difference between the pretest scores of the intervention and comparison groups in the NEGD, it indicates that there is selection bias.
a. True
b. False
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Signal-detection theory has been used to assess memory performance.
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Suppose it was observed that there is a correlation of r = -0.81 between a driver's age and the cost of the car insurance. This correlation would mean that, in general, older people pay more for car insurance.
a. True
b. False
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When the nonequivalent groups design is used, the groups are almost always as similar as they would have been had there been random assignment.
a. True
b. False
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Forced-choice recognition tests are multiple-choice tests.
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