With regards to ethics in scientific biomedical research, changes have been proposed for the Declaration of Helsinki, which were spurred by the following developments:
a) Increased research sponsored by for-profit organizations such as pharmaceutical companies
b) Increased non-profit agency and government scrutiny regarding the clinical populations being proposed for investigation
c) Less stringent guidelines on informed consent in order to increase the number of double-blind experimental designs
d) Decreased globalization of research which limits cross-culture generalizability
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According to the general mechanism approach, speech perception can be explained by
a. the same kind of learning mechanisms that humans use in acquiring other cognitive skills. b. an innate ability to acquire language. c. a neural unit in the temporal lobe of the cortex that is "programmed" shortly before birth. d. listeners' skills in coordinating phonemes with the lip position of a speaker.
James spends months developing a theory of decision making. But in an experimental test, only half of the participants respond as his theory predicted. James concludes that the rest of the subjects did not understand the directions and proclaims that the experiment is evidence in favor of his theory. This is an example of the ____.?
a. ?confirmation bias. b. ?conversion effect. c. ?"eureka" phenomenon. d. ?gambler's fallacy
Which action is not a reform in legal procedures regarding mental illness?
a. ?holding everyone responsible for their actions (even those who meet legal criteria for insanity) b. ?requiring the defendant to prove that she or he was insane at the time of the crime c. ?eliminating the irresistible-impulse criterion from the definition of insanity d. ?allowing verdicts of "guilty but mentally ill"
We tend to experience the tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon when trying to name:
a. people and objects c. verbs b. emotional states d. locations and directions