When a researcher allows his/her expectations about the study to influence the results, __________ has occurred
a) selection bias
c) the placebo effect
c) experimenter bias
d) the dependent variable effect
c
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Reinforcers, whether they be positive or negative, have the same effect on behavior, which is to:
A. decrease the probability that the behavior will be repeated B. increase the probability that the behavior will be repeated C. increase the probability that the behavior will be extinguished D. decrease the probability that the behavior will be spontaneously recovered
The word-length effect reveals that
a. STM digit span remains constant across native speakers of different languages. b. longer words are typically more distinctive and easier to retrieve from LTM than shorter words. c. working memory's central executive processes verbal information differently than visual/image information. d. the phonological loop of the working memory model has a limited capacity.
Several elementary, junior high, and high school students are presented with a moral dilemma involving a young man whose best friend asks him to help him cheat on the upcoming history test. Using Kohlberg's theory, explain the level each of the different age students would most likely be in and how each might respond to this dilemma
What will be an ideal response?
One important difference between organizing effects and activating effects of hormones is that activating effects ____.
A. are shorter-term B. take place mostly during an early sensitive period C. cause the pituitary gland to release another hormone D. control only the peripheral nervous system