Kim Peek, who died in 2009, was the model for Dustin Hoffman's character in the movie Rain Man. Although Kim had difficulty with abstract thinking and tests of general intelligence, he exhibited exceptional mental ability in memorizing books, zip codes, and classical music. Kim Peek had what is known as
a. gifted autism.
b. savant syndrome.
c. Turner's syndrome.
d. a schizotypal personality.
B
Psychology
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a. true b. false
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What is power?
a) An objection to the use of significance testing in psychological research b) The expression of differences between groups in a common metric c) The probability of accepting the null hypothesis when it is false d) The extent to which a difference can be detected when a difference exists
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