Suppose I wanted to determine if there is a relationship between the number of absences from my class and a student’s GPA. After collecting several semester’s worth of data, I notice that students who miss more classes tend to have a lower GPA.  In a scatterplot of days missed and GPA, what would be the response variable and what type association would you expect to see?

A supplier of digital memory cards claims that no more than 2% of its cards are defective.   A customer took a random sample of 200 cards and found that 5 were defective.  What is the proper hypotheses to test the customer’s claim that the rate is different?

List or describe something that you learned about while preparing for this test that was not actually on the test, but that you would like for me to know you learned about so far this term. 

An unranked college football team upsets the #1 team in the country with a last-second field goal. Your best friend from high school says they knew the #1 team was going to lose because they were overrated and not really that good. This is most clearly an example of

Your employer has just instituted new eleven-digit identification numbers. Your number, for instance is 65819032548. You remember the number, however, as 6581-9032-548. This strategy best illustrates the process of:

Which of the following memory structures holds the least information?

At Plains High School, students who are tardy to class are given “Yard Patrol” after school. Yard patrol amounts to requiring the students to clean up any trash found on the school grounds. As it turns out, the strategy is moderately successful; fewer students are tardy to class. Which of the following concepts from operant conditioning is best illustrated by the school’s strategy?

What is one suggestion your textbook offers for reducing the negative effects of ability grouping?

Which model was adopted by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) in 1997?

Using the CPT manual, assign the appropriate code for the following case: A patient with bilateral vocal cord paralysis presents for removal of arytenoid cartilage. This is being done to improve the patient’s breathing. With the patient placed under general anesthesia, the flexible laryngoscope with operating microscope is inserted into the oral cavity. The pharynx and larynx are examined under the microscope. After adequate visualization is established, the arytenoid cartilage is exposed by excision of the mucosa overlying it and arytenoidectomy performed. CPT Codee