​The Sign of the Correlation (+/)Is Generally Meaningless for the Point-Biserial

question 61

True/False

​The sign of the correlation (+/)is generally meaningless for the point-biserial correlation and the phi-coefficient.

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Definitions:

Misinformation Effect

The phenomenon where a person's recall of episodic memories becomes less accurate due to post-event information, often leading to memory distortion.

Proactive Interference

A phenomenon where old memories hinder the ability to remember new information.

State-Dependent Learning

The phenomenon that information learned in a particular state of consciousness is more readily recalled when in the same state.

Connectionist Model

An approach in cognitive sciences that models mental or behavioral phenomena as emergent from interconnected networks of simple units.