Upon entering an experimental session, participants were greeted by a student investigator who wore jeans and a shirt with gay pride symbols. Participants were asked to report their feelings about personal freedom, equality and tolerance. Interestingly, participants in this session reported greater regard for these variables than participants in the other experimental sessions where the student
investigator wore khaki pants and polo shirt. These findings may be explained by ____.
a. the placebo effect.
b. the Hawthorne effect.
c. experimenter bias.
d. demand characteristics.
D
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A) prefrontal lobotomy B) electroconvulsive therapy C) gamma knife surgery D) split-brain surgery E) Select
According to Köhler, patterns of brain activity and patterns of conscious experience are always structurally equivalent. This described the Gestalt concept of:
a. the law of Prägnanz b. the constancy principle c. unconscious inference d. psychophysical isomorphism
On which section of the Stanford-Binet (SB5) is the test taker's ability measured by having the subjects complete analogy questions, fill in the missing shape in a group of shapes, and tell a story about what's happening in a series of pictures?
a. fluid reasoning b. working memory c. quantitative reasoning d. visual-spatial processing
Neurotransmitters floating in the synapse may bind to _____ on the postsynaptic neuron.
A) vesicles B) receptors C) autoreceptors D) cell bodies