A Correlation of

question 23

True/False

A correlation of .60 indicates that 36 percent of the variance in the dependent variable has been explained.

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Definitions:

Cognitive Processes

Mental activities such as thinking, understanding, learning, and remembering.

Unattended Information

Information that is present in the environment but is not the focus of one's attention and hence is processed minimally or not at all.

Sensory Memory

The shortest-term element of memory, which allows retention of impressions of sensory information after the original stimuli have ended.

Primacy and Recency Effects

Psychological terms describing the tendency to remember information that appears at the beginning (primacy) and end (recency) of a list better than information in the middle.