Recall That Bridgeman (1981) Conducted an Experiment with Ten-Year-Old Children

question 160

Multiple Choice

Recall that Bridgeman (1981) conducted an experiment with ten-year-old children, half of whom had previously had two months' experience in a jigsaw classroom. In this experiment, she showed the youngsters a cartoon in which a little boy waves goodbye to his father at the airport, receives a package from the postman, and bursts into tears upon finding out that it contains a toy plane. Children who had two months' experience in the jigsaw groups were more likely than the control group to say that the __________.

• A) boy cried because the gift reminded him of his father leaving
• B) boy cried because he missed his father
• C) postman was confused about why the boy cried
• D) postman knew the boy was sad because the gift reminded him of his father's leaving

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Definitions:

Stepwise Regression

A statistical method of building a model by adding or removing predictors based on their statistical significance.

Independent Variable

A variable in an experiment that is manipulated or changed by the researcher to observe its effects on the dependent variable.

Simple Regression

An analytical approach that employs a linear equation to depict how a dependent variable is influenced by one independent variable.

Stepwise Regression

A method of regression analysis in which the selection of predictive variables is carried out by an automatic procedure, adding or removing predictors based on specific criteria.