Social psychologists focus on how groups affect attitudes and behavior

Which of the following is found in science but NOT in pseudoscience?

A) Amazing, counterintuitive claims B) The presence of difficult-to-understand jargon or technical information Incorrect. In fact, the more psychobabble jargon that is used, the more pseudoscientific a claim is. C) Reliance on anecdotal evidence to support one's theory of human behavior D) Self-correction of incorrect hypotheses and theories Correct. In pseudoscience, hypotheses that are not supported by the data are rarely adjusted. In a science, theories are adapted to the evidence that is gathered about them.

Jeff is using a measure that will indicate how many standard deviations above or below the mean a score is. The measure being used by Jeff is called a

a. z-score. b. Pearson r. c. median. d. coefficient of correlation.