If you are writing a research paper, what should you do to avoid plagiarizing someone else's work?

a) Make sure you cite the source. That way you do not have to worry about writing it in your own words.
b) Make sure you explain the information that you are using in your own words and cite the source.
c) Citing your source is not necessary as long as you occasionally change a few words as you go.
d) Cite your sources only if you take a quote directly from someone else's work.

ANS: b

Psychology

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A. tests that make reference to the study episode versus those that do not. B. a kind of memory that involves conscious awareness of the study episode at test as opposed to a kind of memory that does not. C. a kind of study in which regularities are retained after many exposures to a pattern or rule, as opposed to a kind of study in which information is retained after a single exposure. D. situations in which subjects are consciously aware of stimuli at study versus those when they are not. E. study instructions that make the subject aware that a test will follow versus those that do not.

Psychology

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A) longitudinal B) sequential C) cross-sectional D) correlational

Psychology