Exam 20: Appendix B: Behavioral Statistics

Which of the following is NOT one of the "boxes" found in your psychology textbook that provides opportunities for you to reflect more deeply about what you are reading?

The range and standard deviation are measures of __________.

Which of the following would NOT be a part of self-regulated learning?

You handle the payroll at a small company whose president boasts that the average salary at his company is $54,000.What is the statistical reason for this distorted view of the company's average pay? Then,using the salaries listed below for everyone that works at this company determine the mean,median,mode,and range of salaries for this small company. Salaries: $200,000 (president's salary); $100,000 (vice-president's salary) Other eight employees earn $30,000 each.

According to the second step in the LISAN method of note-taking,every lecture is based on a core of __________.

The six steps of the SQ4R,in order,are

According to the authors of your textbook,which of the following would be considered a POOR study strategy?

Inferential statistics allow us to generalize from the behavior of small groups of participants to that of the larger groups they represent.

In addition to the Gateways Questions that are repeated throughout each the chapter to help students recognize key topics,there are other questions that appear before some of the paragraphs and are similar to questions that students like to ask themselves as they read this textbook.These questions that appear before some paragraphs are called

Jasmine is reading the section of her textbook entitled "Stages of Sleep." She thinks to herself,"Is there more than one stage of sleep?" "What are the stages of sleep?" "How do they differ?" Jasmine is performing which step in the SQ4R method?

The median is very sensitive to extremely high or low scores.

According to the LISAN method of taking notes,students should try to be like tape recorders,taking down the teacher's lecture word-for-word.

Terrence is doing his psychology term paper on "creativity." To find information about his topic,he goes to a specialized online database offered by the American Psychological Association.He searches for his topic by entering the key words with each record in this database consisting of an abstract plus notes about the author,title,and source.This database is known as

Students who are active learners set goals that are

Your friend Amy has just failed her psychology test and does not understand how this could have happened.She reminds you that she looked over her notes while you were both watching television last night and then stayed up three more hours cramming in all those "terms" that are so hard to remember by recopying her notes.Amy finally says that "perhaps she studied too much and got confused." After reading about self-reflective study strategies,explain how Amy can improve her study habits.

Tanisha is using an interactive eBook to read and study psychology.With this book,she can take notes,highlight,and use in-context glossary definitions.Tanisha also has access through this website to interactive teaching and learning tools,such as flashcards and quizzes.Tanisha is most likely using

Active learners set specific goals for studying with these goals being clear-cut and __________.

Sofia is taking a test with questions that ask her to "compare and contrast" and to "analyze and evaluate." Sofia is taking a(n)__________ test.

If you remember that "gato" is the Spanish word for "cat" by visualizing a cat sitting on the top of a gate,then you are using a

Juanita has determined the relationship between her vocabulary screening test and her students' reading scores to be .60.The percent of variance in reading scores that is accounted for by knowing the students' scores on the screening test would be __________ percent.