A researcher tests the influence of environment on cognitive development by taking newborn children away from their parents and assigning half of them to a rich cognitive environment and half to a deprived cognitive environment. Is there anything wrong with this experiment, and if so, what??
a. ?No; there is nothing wrong with this experiment.
b. ?Yes; there is no control group.
c. ?Yes; this experimental method violates ethical standards.
d. ?Yes; this experimental method cannot control for the Hawthorne effect.
ANSWER:
c
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a. ?retroactive inhibition b. ?stereotype threat c. ?analytic intelligence d. ?convergent thinking
In an APA-style paper, what are the two components of citing other research?
What will be an ideal response?
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a) Some challenged the existence of multiple personalities b) The individual in the case offered a different account of her treatment than her doctors c) It ultimately did not offer much information on multiple personality d) The case study challenged conventional wisdom on multiple personality.