A Researcher Has Surveyed Several Thousand Introductory Psychology Students Across

question 581

Multiple Choice

A researcher has surveyed several thousand introductory psychology students across the country regarding their views of dating. Because all of his participants were introductory psychology students, this researcher's findings

• A)are totally invalidated.
• B)will have limitations regarding their meaning.
• C)are completely valid because all college students have to take introductory psychology.
• D)cannot be published until they have been replicated at least two more times.

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Definitions:

Piaget's Ideas

The theories of cognitive development proposed by Jean Piaget, emphasizing how children progress through distinct stages of development.

Transitivity

Principle that says if a relation holds between a first object and a second object, and holds between the second object and a third object, then it holds between the first object and the third object. Piaget argued that an understanding of transitivity is characteristic of concrete operational thought.

Logical

Pertaining to the use of reason and systematic thinking to analyze and form judgments.

Seriation

The concrete operation that involves ordering stimuli along a quantitative dimension (such as length).