Explain what deception and debriefing are

What will be an ideal response?


Deception involves lying to the participants concerning the true nature of a study because knowing the true nature of the study might affect their performance. Debriefing involves providing information about the true purpose of a study as soon after the completion of data collection as possible.

Psychology

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Response prevention prevents the client from engaging in _____ behaviors

a. anxiety reducing b. adaptive avoidance c. covert escape d. emotive-retaliation

Psychology

Empirically based treatments in psychology are BEST seen as ______ to evidence-based medicine.

a. unrelated b. dissimilar c. analogous d. identical

Psychology

Lead poisoning

a. is no longer a concern because lead was removed from paint in 1978 b. causes brain damage that may be only partly reversible c. affects infants equally across all income levels d. causes harm even after just one exposure

Psychology

Using Tower of London, Asato et al. (2006) found the strongest predictor of success was which measure of inhibition?

a. backward color task b. Stroop task c. antisaccade task d. dimensional control card sort task

Psychology