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1 SandraDee strongly believes that attending daycare is detrimental to children’

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Question

1 SandraDee strongly believes that attending daycare is detrimental to children’s development so she decides to write her psychology term paper on this topic. She does a literature search and finds several sources supporting her opinion, but she finds that the majority of research indicates that children attending daycare experience healthy development. She writes a paper using the sources that find negative associations with daycare attendance. This is an example of what?

Select one:

a. confirmation bias

b. confounding variable

c. correlational research

d. observer bias

2 Research shows that people who smoke cigarettes are more likely to get lung cancer than those who do not smoke. This research alone demonstrates what?

Select one:

a. smoking causes lung cancer

b. smoking contributes to lung cancer

c. there is a predisposition toward both smoking and lung cancer

d. there is a relationship between smoking and lung cancer

Explanation / Answer

d. there is a relationship between smoking and lung cancer