You Are Trying to Determine Which of Two Terms Is

question 474

Multiple Choice

You are trying to determine which of two terms is related to identical twins.You see "monozygotic" and "dizygotic." You remember that a zygote is formed from one egg and one sperm and that "mono" means one and "di" means two.Identical twins would have to result from the same egg and the same sperm, thus one zygote.Using old information to derive the meaning of "monozygotic" and "dizygotic" illustrates the use of

• A) selective comparison.
• B) selective attention.
• C) selective combination.
• D) selective encoding.

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Definitions:

Null Hypothesis

A hypothesis that there is no significant difference or effect in a particular situation, used as a starting point for statistical testing.

Significantly Different

A term used to describe a result in statistical analyses indicating that observed differences or effects are unlikely to have occurred by chance.

Significantly Equal

A term not typically used in statistics; might refer to the concept of achieving statistical significance to claim no difference or equivalence between groups.

T-test

An analytical procedure for assessing if the average scores of two separate groups are significantly dissimilar.