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Professor Adams Is Interested in Comparing the Attitude Today's 70-Year-Old

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Professor Adams is interested in comparing the attitude today's 70-year-old adults have toward using computers with the attitude that 70-year-old adults had 10 years ago.Assuming that she has computer attitude measures from a group of 70-year-old adults taken this year and computer attitude measures from a group of 70-year-old adults made 10 years ago,which type of research design does Professor Adams have?


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Self-serving Bias

A common tendency for individuals to attribute their successes to personal factors while attributing their failures to external factors.

Factor Analysis

A statistical technique that determines hidden variables or factors responsible for the correlation pattern among a group of observed variables.

Trait

A stable characteristic or quality that describes a person's typical thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.

Social-cognitive

Pertains to the branch of psychology that examines the influence of social contexts and cognitive processes on individuals' behaviors and perceptions.

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