Describe three different ways that experimental social psychologists can enhance the external validity of their experiments
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: They can work to make their experiments psychologically real to participants, even if experimental procedures or manipulations do not perfectly resemble situations in real life. They can conduct replications with CONCEPTUALLY similar independent variables or with different participants in different settings. They can use cross-cultural research to determine whether there are any human universals. They can conduct field experiments outside the laboratory.
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Discuss the major functions of four major neurotransmitters in the brain and their implicated role in psychopathology
What will be an ideal response?
Problems involving clear-cut brain injuries or diseases are often labeled __________ disorders
a. neurotic mental b. somatoform c. dissociative d. organic mental
Arlene has an intense, irrational fear of flying in airplanes. She is probably suffering from a ______ disorder
a. panic c. phobic b. generalized anxiety d. conversion
A genetic disorder that prevents androgens from masculinizing the external genitalia is known as
A) partial androgen insensitivity syndrome. B) complete androgen insensitivity syndrome. C) Dominican Republic syndrome. D) congenital adrenal hyperplasia.