Imagine that you have been hired to assist in an experiment investigating the verbal abilities of boys and girls. In preparing for the experiment, you read a research study that found higher verbal abilities in girls than boys
If this information about gender leads you somehow to communicate to the girls in the experiment that they should do better than the boys, we say that the ________ effect is operating.
a. placebo
b. expectancy
c. double-blind
d. between-subjects
Answer: b. expectancy
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Imitation is said to occur
a. when any act tried once is repeated. b. only in response to another person engaging in the same behavior. c. without thought. d. only reflexively.
In comparison with white fat cells, brown fat cells appear a. larger
b. different due to their higher levels of mitochondria. c. the same and can be identified only by their location. d. different due to their lower levels of mitochondria.
Your friends play a practical joke on you and hook a small battery to your computer keyboard. Every time you hit the backspace key, you get a small electric shock. After a while, you involuntarily jerk just before pressing the backspace key. In this example, the ________ is the conditioned stimulus and the _______ is the conditioned response.
A. backspace key; jerk before pressing the backspace key B. electric shock; backspace key C. backspace key; electric shock D. jerk before pressing the backspace key; backspace key
DSM-5 is proposing a potentially new psychotic disorder for further study called
A. schizoaffective disorder. B. schizotypal personality disorder. C. attenuated psychosis syndrome. D. brief psychotic disorder.