Dear Tony 1. Only ONE measure of central tendency is needed. If the data is interval or above, this should be the mean, unless several outliers that cannot be discarded, and then it should be the median. If ordinal, the median and if nominal,...
IA Exemplar HighOne more question....In the past I have had students do the Elizabeth Loftus car crash experiment and use the Mann Whitney U test. They have gotten top marks. But recently I have seen some sites indicating that an Independent Sample t-test should...
IA Exemplar HighHi, Can I just clarify a few things? How many measures of Central Tendency are needed? In the past, my top students have used Mean, Mode, Median, and Standard Deviation. Are all of these necessary and do they lose points if they include all of them? How...
IA Exemplar HighHello. I have students using this for their IA. Their ideas was to create the context a little differently. They have a symbol that can look like either a 13 or a B to different people. They want to present this symbol to 2 different groups, one in...
Bransford and Johnson (1972)Can schema theory be used to explain thinking/problem solving? Like when we use contextual clues to understand a word when we read?
LP 4: Schema theoryIt is both. It depends on which behavior you are focusing on. If you focus on not wearing the belt, it is positive punishment. If you focus on wearing the belt, then it is negative reinforcement. People often assume that it must be one...
Operant conditioningA debate sprung about today regarding the example of a seat belt alarm being negative reinforcement. The sound is annoying and goes of if people are not wearing the belts before the car goes into drive. (Positive Punishment) VS. The...
Operant conditioningDear Sam the latest clarifications in the guide explain that you do not need to link each practical to a different context. In addition, they don’t have to be linked to the content you choose to teach.
The nature of stressHi John I am doing Substance use and abuse as our health problem. Am I correct in assuming the class practical does not necessarily have to relate to substance use? The guide gives an example of looking at managing stress. I have been stressing...
The nature of stress
Tony
O.k. thanks a lot.
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