Imagine you are a psychologist trying to uncover the causes of schizophrenia. How would you approach this question from the perspective of a psychological detective?
What will be an ideal response?
*To answer this or any other question from the perspective of a psychological detective, there are four guidelines which should be followed:
(1) What is the statement or claim, and who is making it?
(2) Is the statement or claim based on scientific observations?
(3) What do statistics reveal?
(4) Are there plausible alternative explanations for the statement or claim?
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a. Expected cell value b. Correlation coefficient c. Effect size d. Degrees of freedom
Infants are far more competent than once believed, but adolescents and adults are less competent than once believed. Describe one competency exhibited by infants and one incorrect belief held by adolescents and adults
What will be an ideal response?