You were asked to participate in an experiment to test the effectiveness of review sessions on exam grades. As a research methods student, you concluded that you had been assigned to the control group because you simply took the scheduled exams. Since you were in the control group you simply gave up and quit studying. This exemplifies:
a. compensation
b. the testing effect.
c. demoralization.
d. maturation.
e. experimental mortality.
c
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Jamaicans who newly immigrate to the United States face attitudes similar to those faced by African Americans whose families have been in the U.S. since the time of slavery; this is an example of what is known as __________
a. a declining expectation b. spillover bigotry c. mutual hatred d. shared racism
Although given credit for its insights into the original emergence of gender roles, functionalist theory is often criticized on the grounds that
a. it is too feminist in its outlook. b. it does not explain recent changes in gender roles. c. its assumption that gender roles are functional is erroneous. d. it does not address the issue of a gender division of labor. e. it treats inequality as a random event.
Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. The number of women who are involved in sex trafficking has decreased each year. 2. Human trafficking benefits from globalization but is illegal worldwide. 3. Despite the recession, excessive consumption has continued at a steady pace, making it unlikely that we will soon enter a “postconsumption age.” 4. Many people now consider work and production less important than consumption. 5. An example of mediated interaction would be communicating over the Internet in a chat
The history of the diagnostic and statistical manual suggest that
a) those working in mental health generally agree on the causes of mental illness. b) our system of psychiatric diagnoses has resulted in part from a series of political fights. c) those working in the mental health field generally agree on how to treat the different mental illnesses. d) psychiatrists generally agree on how to treat homosexuality.