After grading the first exam, your developmental psychology instructor says, Those students who actually came to class did much better than those of you who showed up once a week.. Given this information, you would suspect that the correlation between attendance and grades would be closest to ____.
a. +.09
b. + 0.9
c. + 9.0
d. + 90.0
Question 2Which statement best exemplifies ego resilience?
a. I am a good person..
b. Parents should be able to discipline their children any way they see fit..
c. Even though I have never been in this situation before, I can handle it..
d. It is hard for me to take the point of view of someone who thinks differently than I do..
Question 3Which correlation coefficient value indicates the strongest relationship?
a. -.23
b. .57
c. .15
d. -.82
Question 4The odds of ____ increase in a person who has been abused as a child.
a. divorce
b. attempting suicide
c. being an authoritative parent
d. high academic performance
Question 5You read a research article that concludes that the higher a student's self-esteem, the worse he performs in school. This sort of relationship would best be characterized as
a. a negative correlation.
b. no relationship.
c. positive correlation.
d. cause and effect.
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