Exam 20: Appendix B: Behavioral Statistics

If you remember that "dinero" is the Spanish word for "money" by visualizing yourself paying for dinner at your favorite Mexican restaurant with "dinero," you are using a memory aid known as a(n)__________.

If you accept the challenge of reflecting on what you read,the words in your textbook will be considered "live words," which means

Correlations allow us to determine causation between two variables.

The best way to prepare for short-answer tests is to overlearn the details of the course and to pay special attention to lists of related terms.

Muriel's professor provides powerpoint overheads online.So,before every lecture,Muriel reads her assigned materials and looks over these powerpoint overheads in order to anticipate what her professor will say in class.Muriel is utilizing which step in the LISAN method?

Which of the following is a good test-taking strategy for objective tests?

Anna is taking a multiple choice test.On several of the items,she is unsure of the answers.If Anna decides to change her answers on these items,she will most likely __________ points.

According to the discussion of self-regulated learning in your textbook,if you fall short of your goals,you should

You are flipping through the television channels when you come upon a program about your future career.The next day,you tell your best friend about all the details you learned from this program.According to Donald Norman,when you were viewing the television program on your future occupation,you were exhibiting __________ cognition.

Vertical bars are used to indicate frequencies in a frequency polygon.

Continuing to study and learn after you think you have mastered a topic is known as

Jody is taking an objective test.One of the answers,which he must decide whether it is true or false,includes superlatives such as most,least,best,worst,largest,or smallest.Jody is test-wise and knows that answers with superlatives are usually ___________.

Reflective cognition involves

Which of the following is NOT a good test-taking suggestion for taking an objective test?

A researcher studies the effect of a new therapy on a small group of hyperactive children in the hopes of generalizing these findings for use with all hyperactive children.This researcher is using __________statistics.

According to Donald Norman,when we more or less passively let an event happen to us,we are exhibiting __________ cognition.

Measures of variability provide a single score that describes how scattered or "spread out" a distribution of scores is.

The three basic types of descriptive statistics are graphical statistics,measures of central tendency,and measures of variability.

Regarding the use of PsycINFO,which of the following statements is FALSE?

If the mean of a test is 80 and the standard deviation is 10,a person with a z-score of -2.0 on a test scored __________.