Module 2
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| Jamie and Lynn were sure that they had answered most of the multiple-choice questions correctly because "the questions required only common sense." However, they each scored less than 60% on the exam. This best illustrates: | overconfidence.
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| Every twenty-fifth person who ordered a subscription to a weekly news magazine was contacted by market researchers to complete a survey of opinions regarding the magazine's contents. The researchers were most clearly employing a technique known as: | random sampling.
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| Which research method runs the greatest risk of collecting evidence that may be unrepresentative of what is generally true? | the case study
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| Surveys are most likely to indicate that reckless behavior and self-control are: | negatively correlated.
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| A correlation of +.70 between children's physical height and their popularity among their peers indicates that: | higher levels of popularity among one's peers is associated with greater physical height in children.
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| A tendency to notice and remember instances in which our premonitions of disaster are subsequently followed by harmful events is most likely to contribute to: | illusory correlations.
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| Researchers are especially likely to use experiments rather than other methods in order to achieve greater accuracy with respect to: | explanation.
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| Researchers control factors that might influence a dependent variable by means of: | random assignment
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| Those who drank the nonalcoholic beverage participated in the ________ condition. | control
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| In an experimental study of the effects of dieting on weight loss, dieting would be the: | independent variable
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| The ________ can be a particularly misleading indication of what is average for a ________ distribution of scores. | mean; skewed
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| The ________ is a measure of ________. | standard deviation; variation
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