People report feeling better after taking medication even though it hasn't had time to be effective. They are experiencing
A) the experimenter bias effect.
B) low reliability.
C) the placebo effect.
D) confirmation bias.
Answer: C
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A) the misapplication of the anchoring and adjustment heuristic. B) the correspondence bias. C) a self-fulfilling prophecy. D) attributional ambiguity.
When you ask experts to rate the extent to which individual questions are essential to measure the testing universe, you are gathering evidence of validity based on ______.
A. relations with other variables B. internal structure C. test content D. response processes
For __________ of years, cultures in both the East and the West have had conceptions of life stages.
A. hundreds B. thousands C. millions D. billions