You Have Just Learned of Survey Results Conducted by Your

question 64

Multiple Choice

You have just learned of survey results conducted by your university on the drinking behaviors of the college campus.Wondering about the results, you ask yourself the following questions: how were participants selected, were participants selected depending on if they lived on- or off-campus, were all the participants in a sorority or fraternity, were non-traditional age students included in the survey, and were men and women equally sampled? These types of questions indicate that you are concerned about what threat to internal validity?

• A)history
• B)selection
• C)maturation
• D)regression to the mean

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Definitions:

Chunking

A memory technique involving organizing items into familiar, manageable units, which makes it easier to remember information.

Hippocampus

A region of the brain that is associated with memory formation, organization, and storage.

Amnesia

A condition characterized by memory loss, which can be due to factors like injury, disease, or psychological trauma.

Spacing Effect

The psychological principle stating that learning is more effective when study sessions are spaced out over time rather than being conducted in a single marathon session.