Briefly describe what is meant by methodological and statistical control in a between-subjects experiment.
What will be an ideal response?
Methodologically, participants are selected in such a way that random assignment can be used, which will make individual differences about the same in each group. Statistically, another level of control is added by using a test statistic to determine the likelihood that something other than the manipulation caused the differences in a dependent measure between groups.
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a. psychologists specializing in neuroses. b. psychiatrists specializing in nervous disorders. c. psychologists specializing in neuropsychological testing. d. physicians specializing in diseases of the brain and nervous system.
A normal distribution has ? = 20 and ? = 4 . What is the probability of randomly selecting a score greater than 25 from this distribution?
a. 0.3944 c. 0.8944 b. 0.1056 d. 0.7888
Which of the following is an example of a social convention transgression as compared to a moral transgression?
a. Using another child's hat and gloves b. Telling a lie c. Stealing from another student d. Destroying another child's toy
Researchers discovered that many ministers who supported desegregation in Little Rock, Arkansas did not use their pulpits to air their (unpopular) views for fear of losing contributions and church members
This is a real world example of the power of ________ to exacerbate prejudice and discrimination. a. social censure b. informational conformity c. normative conformity d. attitude ambivalence