PSYC 3480 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Mental Rotation, Motivation, Reading Disability
19 Sep 2013
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Almost all research on cognitive abilities focuses on college students is an example of - biased samples. _____________tells how many people in a sample receive each score - frequency distribution when two distributions show small overlap this tells us that the two distributions are _________ - very different. Gender differences often __________when we test certain kinds of people or looking at certain situations - disappear. Engineering requires high spatial skills and according to research men score higher therefore better off being engineers is an example of - how cognitive gender differences are not large enough to be relevant for persons career choice. _____________research read through all appropriate studies on given topic and draw a conclusions based on tallies but this approach often produces _________ - box score/ counting approach; ambiguous tallies. ___________provides statistical method for combining numerous studies on a single topic which yields a number known as ___________- metanlysis; effect size.
