In Aldous Huxley's book Brave New World, infants develop a fear of books after books are repeatedly presented with a scary loud noise. In this fictional example, the loud noise is a(n) ____
a. conditioned stimulus
b. conditioned response
c. unconditioned stimulus
d. unconditioned response
C
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If people who drop out of study are systematically different from those who stay, we have which threat to validity?
a. selection b. mortality c. regression to the mean d. maturation
The proximodistal principle states that parts of the body that are ____ develop before parts of the body that are ____
a. close to the center of the body; farther away b. close to the head; close to the feet c. internal; external d. used for processing information; used for motor skills
Why is it important to make sure that different participant
groups are roughly equivalent in terms of personal characteristics (e.g., age, gender) before any independent variable is introduced? A) Because it is important to treat all research participants equally so that they feel that they are not being manipulated. B) Because research ethics forbid any experiment to take place when the participant groups are fundamentally different from each other. C) So that no major differences between the groups unduly bias the results of the experiment. D) Because it threatens the integrity of a within-group experimental design.
Discuss the evidence regarding social support, attitude, and personality and their connection to surviving serious illness.
What will be an ideal response?