You are conducting your first study. If you tell the participants the nature of the study they might provide socially desirable responses. To minimize socially desirable responses, what technique might you use?
IRB board
Informed consent
Deception
Debriefing
Deception
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Which of the following students provides the best summary of the relationship between experience and cognitive ability?
a. Ada: "Although boys may spend more time playing math and spatial games outside of school, girls actually have more experience with computers in the classroom.". b. Emmy: "Even though boys and girls complete the same number of math courses, girls are shown more often in the textbooks.". c. Hypatia: "Boys take more math courses than girls, but girls play more games involving numbers and spatial skills.". d. Sofia: "Parents spend more time explaining science and math to boys than to girls.".
Which of the following statements is true of the hierarchical model of motivation?
a) It rejects the notion of universality of personality. b) It states that humans possess evolved motive dispositions, which are serviced by a universal set of personality dispositions that help individuals achieve their affective goals by managing personal and environmental resources. c) It states that people from all cultures share basic psychological needs for autonomy, competence, and relatedness. d) It concerns the maintenance and stability of social hierarchies, and suggests that cultural ideologies, values, attitudes, and worldviews provide the justification for intergroup behaviors such as discrimination and prejudice.
Maladaptive behavior is most likely under conditions of a. high competence and weak environmental press
b. medium competence and moderate environmental press. c. low competence and weak environmental press. d. no competence and no environmental press.
One likely reason for the blocking effect is that
a. the subject habituates to CS1. b. CS2 predicts the US, and the subject is not surprised by the arrival of the US in later trials. c. CS1 predicts the US, and the subject is not surprised by the arrival of the US in later trials. d. CS1 does not predict the US and the animal is startled by the arrival of the US in later trials.