What is a positive correlation?
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: When both variables are going in the same direction, whether it be up or down.
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Corrine sent away for a handwriting analysis, and she couldn't believe it how accurate it was! It told her "you have a great need for other people to like and admire you and a tendency to be critical of yourself."
Psychologists would say that this description fit Corrine because of something known as the a) self-fulfilling prophecy. b) correlation fallacy. c) social-desirability bias. d) Barnum effect.
Which of the following phenomena is most indicative of physical dependence on nicotine?
a. within hours after smoking cessation there is a decreased heart rate, EEG slowing, and headache b. nonhumans will self-administer nicotine c. heavy smokers may not desire to smoke immediately upon wakening in the morning d. heavy smokers still may enjoy a cigarette after they have just smoked several cigarettes