Experimenter _______ refers to the expectations of a researcher that his/her participants will behave or respond in a particular way.
A. dependence
B. prophecy
C. bias
D. placebo
Answer: C
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In general, gay and lesbian couples
a. have less satisfying relationships than married heterosexuals. b. assign traditional roles of "wife" to one partner and the role of "husband" to the other. c. tend to have more egalitarian relationships than married heterosexuals. d. follow a very different pattern of stages of relationship development than heterosexual couples.
When we refer to a score's deviation, we are referring to
a. how far it is from other scores. b. how far it is from the mean. c. how close it is to the other scores. d. how much error occurred in measuring it.
Can brain activity define behavior?
A. It can in nonhuman subjects, but there is a mind/brain divide in human subjects. B. Activity in the center of the brain can define behavior, but activity in or near the cortex cannot. C. No. The physical brain and the conscious mind are separate entities. D. We do not know the answer to this question yet.
In Stroop's study (1935) on automatic processing in attention, he found that participants took less time to name colors when the word and color were ______, and more time when they were ______.
A. the same; different B. different; the same C. simultaneous; sequential D. sequential; simultaneous