A result is considered significant if it would occur by chance more than 5 times in 100 repetitions of the study

Edgar is learning deep-breathing techniques to reduce anxiety about having been robbed at knifepoint. This is an example of __________

a) problem-focused coping. b) emotion-focused coping. c) avoidance. d) reappraisal.

It is important to know the probability level for a given set of experimental findings because p-values

a. alert experimenters to poor dependent variable measures. b. inform experimenters whether their results might have happened by chance. c. indicate that experimenters have used the correct manipulation of the independent variable. d. greater than .10 indicate that there is no need to replicate the experiment.