You conduct a study to determine the effects of alcohol on social behavior. Half of your
participants are given alcoholic beverages, the other half drink water, and you monitor their
behavior in a laboratory "bar" setting.
Later, your advisor says the study is flawed mainly due to:
A) the level of alcohol used B) demand characteristics
C) group heterogeneity D) experimenter expectancies
B
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a. increase the immune response. b. increase inflammation. c. fight off viral agents only. d. interfere with the production of antibodies.
During middle childhood, adolescents overwhelmingly prefer ____
a. other-sex to same-sex friends c. older to younger friends b. same-sex to other-sex friends d. younger to older friends
Family planning and genetic counseling are two forms of ______ intervention
a. basic c. tertiary b. primary d. secondary
If information from a story is presented in scrambled order, people ______.
a. actually recall it better than if it had been presented in proper order, because they pay more attention to it b. recall just as much information as if it had been presented in proper order c. tend to recall it in the scripted order d. cannot recall any of the details of the story