Which Level of Explanation in Psychology Is Correctly Matched with an Example

question 145

Multiple Choice

Which level of explanation in psychology is correctly matched with an example

• A)Social/cultural level -- At low doses, cocaine can improve performance on visual attention tasks such as detecting specific stimuli appearing on a computer screen.
• B)Interpersonal level -- Cocaine abuse is associated with a history of violence and sexual abuse in the family.
• C)Biological level -- Cocaine exerts its effects by prolonging the presence of specific chemicals at the junctions between nerve cells.
• D)Social/cultural level -- Cocaine abuse is associated with high levels of the personality trait of neuroticism and with low levels of the trait of conscientiousness.

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Definitions:

Measurement Error

Refers to the difference between the true value of a measurement and the recorded value due to various factors such as instrument error or human error.

T-tests

Statistical tests used to compare the means of two groups and determine if they are significantly different from each other.

Statistically Different

Being statistically different means that observed differences between groups or variables in a study are unlikely to have occurred by chance, according to statistical analysis. This distinction supports the idea that the observed effects reflect true differences in the populations being studied.

Correlation Coefficients

Statistical measures that quantify the direction and strength of the relationship between two numerical variables.