A researcher has participants eat in a restaurant setting with the volume of the background music manipulated as low or high (in decibels) to see if music volume influences food intake. What type of experimental manipulation is described in this example?
What will be an ideal response?
A natural manipulation.
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Skinner's former students demonstrated which of the following with the advent of the IQ Zoo??
a. ?Operant conditioning can be taken out of the lab and applied to the real world. b. ?Behaviorism is a very lucrative business after receiving a Ph.D. from Skinner. c. ?Animals, like humans, are intelligent and have vastly complex minds. d. ?Behaviorism is useless to solving real-world problems. e. ?There are many hardships associated with animal psychology.
To assess your personality, a phrenologist would want to
a. study your handwriting. b. study the lines on your palm. c. examine the shape of your skull. d. record your brain waves with an EEG.
According to Lewin, all the internal and external forces that act on an individual is called the __________
Fill in the blank(s) with correct word
According to this proposition (___________________), no matter how objective observations are they are initiated by theories.
a. theory laden b. constructionism c. theoretical events d. rationalism