The Results of a One-Way ANOVA Suggest That the Participants

question 67

Multiple Choice

The results of a one-way ANOVA suggest that the participants' fear response was differentially impacted depending on their respective fear condition: spiders (M = 44; SD = 4.20) , snakes (M = 62; SD = 7.1) , and dogs (M = 21; SD = 2.20) . There was a significant difference: F (2, 92) = .67, p = .03. Based on this information, what was the within-subjects degrees of freedom?

• A) 21
• B) 92
• C) 2
• D) .67

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Definitions:

Preoperational Stage

According to Piaget, the stage from approximately age 2 to age 7 in which children’s use of symbolic thinking grows, mental reasoning emerges, and the use of concepts increases.

Cognitive Development

The process by which individuals acquire and process knowledge through thought, experience, and the senses over time.

Preoperational

Refers to a stage in Piaget's theory of cognitive development, where children aged 2 to 7 years use symbols to represent their earlier sensorimotor discoveries but lack the ability to perform operations or use logic.