A researcher has access to a large number of schools in the state. In all, he has almost 50,000
possible students that he could potentially recruit for this study.
This large group of students
that are potentially available for this study is known as the __________ population.
Fill in the blanks with correct word
study
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Sarah is on a committee to hire a new person for the social science department. As she interviews one candidate, she discovers that this engaging, very knowledgeable young man did his research in Sarah's area of expertise. Fearing that he might outshine her at the university, Sarah votes to hire another less qualified job candidate. Sarah's choice was most likely determined due to
a. Sarah ignoring the base rate. b. her unconscious mind. c. her emotions. d. her tendency to use the representativeness heuristic.
A criticism of Piaget’s concrete operations period is apparent in the longitudinal data collected by Tomlinson-Keasey and colleagues, which is that _______
a. younger children are fully capable of solving all of Piaget’s concrete operations tasks b. there is a stage-like jump to high levels of performance at ages 6 to 7, rather than 7 to 8 as Piaget claimed c. children reach a ceiling level of performance on Piaget’s tasks, and do not appear to proceed to full mastery in middle childhood d. acquisition of concrete operational concepts is gradual rather than stage-like