For the Following Questions, Select the Letter of the Answer

question 30

Multiple Choice

For the following questions, select the letter of the answer that arranges each set of sentences in logical time order. The first sentence is the topic sentence in each set. Ham the Chimp was the United States' first higher primate astronaut.
____ His training complete, Ham was strapped into a capsule atop a Mercury rocket and launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, into outer space on January 31, 1961.
____ Following his successful flight, the astronaut chimp lived in zoos for 17 years until he died at age 27 and was buried at New Mexico's International Space Hall of Fame.
____ After spending a day in orbit proving that astronauts could indeed function in space, Ham splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean and was picked up by a rescue ship.
____ In December 1960, the chimpanzee was trained to perform simple tasks in response to lights and sounds.

• A) 4, 3, 1, 2
• B) 2, 4, 3, 1
• C) 1, 2, 4, 3

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Definitions:

Random Time Series

A sequence of data points collected or arranged at random intervals over time, often analyzed to identify patterns or trends.

Repeated Measures

A statistical technique used in experiments where the same participants are observed under each condition or time point.

Independent Variable

An independent variable is the variable that is manipulated or changed in an experiment to see its effects on the dependent variable.

Order Effect

In a repeated measures design, the effect that the order of introducing treatments has on the dependent variable.