Question: Question: Dr. Singh has a hypothesis that proposes that consuming fewer carbohydrates will result in increased weight-loss. Which of the following is the dependent variable here?

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the amount of calories in each meal the amount of weight lost the amount of carbohydrates in each meal the length of time on a low-carbohydrate diet Correct Answer: the amount of weight lost

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Question: Question: Niko has always believed that attending daycare is detrimental to children’s development so she decides to write her psychology term paper on this topic. She searches the literature and finds several sources supporting her opinion, but she finds that the majority of research indicates that children attending daycare experience healthy development. She writes a paper using only the sources that find negative associations with daycare attendance. This is an example of___.

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confounding variable observer bias correlational research confirmation bias Correct Answer: confirmation bias

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Question: Question: Which of the following is a limitation that affects the generalizability of research results?

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control groups random assignment small sample size operational definitions Correct Answer: small sample size

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Question: Question: Professor Kirkman the relationship between the color of the house you grew up in and your IQ and finds that there is no correlation. The correlation coefficient here would be:

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-0.5 0.0 +0.5 1.0 Correct Answer: 0.0

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Question: Question: Dr. Stangor is carefully training the graduate students that will be conducting observations during his upcoming research study. He wants to be sure that the students are consistent in the way that they conduct and record their observations. Dr. Stangor is concerned about__________.

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validity inter-rater reliability reliability attrition Correct Answer: inter-rater reliability

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Question: Question: Grace finds that the more she sleeps on the night before an exam, the higher are the score she is able to attain on an exam. There is___________ correlation between the time for which Grace sleeps and her exam scores.

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compounding no a negative a positive Correct Answer: a positive

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Question: Question: An intelligence test is administered on 3 separate occasions yields the same results each time. However, the test’s results are more strongly correlated with hours spent doing homework than they are with other standardized intelligence tests. This test has________ reliability and________ validity.

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high; high low; low high; low low; high Correct Answer: high; low

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Question: Question: To ensure the likelihood that an experimental group represents the population of interest, researchers should conduct________and________.

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blind sampling; random group assignment blind group assignment; random sampling blind group assignment; blind sampling random sampling; random group assignment Correct Answer: random sampling; random group assignment

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Question: Question: Drs. Benally and Chavis are investigating the effects of two vocabulary learning strategies on word retention two weeks later. In this example, learning strategy is the _______ variable and word retention is the _______ variable.

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control; experimental independent; dependent dependent; independent experimental; control Correct Answer: independent; dependent

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Question: Ethnocentric managers believe that their native country, culture, language, and behavior __________.

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are equal to all other cultures. are harmful to others. need to be changed. are outdated. are superior to all others.

Answer: are superior to all others.

 

Question: Maria, the vice president of sales for an international organization, believes that employees in her foreign offices understand best how to handle the personnel and practices in their offices. So when the corporate HR manager approached Maria about reprimanding Robert, a native Parisian who is the Paris office manager, for not doing things according to corporate policy, Maria backed Robert and said, “I believe that the home office should leave Robert alone because he best understands the local culture.” Maria is a(n) ______ manager.

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ethnocentric global native polycentric parochial

Answer: polycentric

 

Question: Quality Air, a company that builds airplanes, typically orders parts for its airplanes from other companies. __________ is the practice Quality Air is using.

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Countertrading Bartering Trading Outsourcing Diversifying

Answer: Outsourcing

 

Question: Which of the following is an example of licensing?

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When a company allows another company to pay it a fee to train its employees. When a company allows a foreign company to pay it a fee to make or distribute the first company’s product or service. When a company pays a competitor a fee to stop the competitor from selling its products in the company’s territory. When a company develops a strategic plan for another organization. When a company barters goods for goods in lieu of a monetary payment.

Answer: When a company allows a foreign company to pay it a fee to make or distribute the first company’s product or service.

 

Question: An organization’s internal stakeholders consist of __________.

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the board of directors, employees, and suppliers. the board of directors, customers, and owners. customers, families of employees, and employees the board of directors, employees, and owners. competitors, the community, and suppliers.

Answer: the board of directors, employees, and owners.

 

Question: Process states include all of the following except

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Terminated Insecure Ready Running

Answer: Insecure

 

Question: Threads are

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The smallest sequence of instructions an OS can manage independently Computer programs that have been loaded into memory and are executing Computer programs in the hardware devices Designed to help users create computer systems out of individual computers

Answer: The smallest sequence of instructions an OS can manage independently

 

Question: Threads of a process share all of the following except

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Open files Code Global variables Register values

Answer: Register values