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In the slides, you saw that a medical journal article published in 1998 argued that there was a relationship between childhood vaccines and autism.  However, no other researchers found this same relationship.  What is the term that psychologists use when referring to the ability to consistently produce the same study results?

Extra Credit. When conducting survey research, a disadvantage is that the participants may not be honest because they want to give socially approved responses that make themselves look better.  What is this bias called?

74. T or F: The University of Florida mascot is the gator. Don’t overthink this 🙂

The solution of a linear programming problem using Excel® typically involves the following three stages:

Suppose that you were interested in conducting an experiment to examine the effect of social media use on teenagers’ social skills.  What is your dependent variable?

Thorndike conducted experiments where he would put cats into different puzzle boxes (you were asked to watch a video of this).  Tell me (a) what happened as the cats were repeatedly placed into the puzzle box and b) how these experiments showed what Thorndike called the law of effect. Write out: a) b)

A small p-value in the runs test provides evidence of:

In schizophrenia, hallucinations and delusions are _____ symptoms.

Extra Credit. Why have some researchers said that Milgram’s baseline/original experiment lacks reliability?

A probability distribution is bounded if there are values A and B such that: