If you were going to conduct a study that involved examining a cause-and-effect relationship between two or more variables, what type of research technique would you most likely use?
a. Experimental
b. Scientific
c. Descriptive
d. Empirical
a. Experimental
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In Muzafer Sherif’s Robber’s Cave experiment, ____.?
a. ?Blacks and Whites were forced to work together on a common task b. ?two groups of boys first developed prejudices toward each other and then became friends c. ?conflict between two groups was prevented by tightly controlling the consequences for conflict d. ?children learned to be prejudiced against other children who had brown eyes
Bandura believes that media portrayal of violence can have harmful effects on our behavior and that of others. He further states that even "normal" individuals can aggress against each other if:
a. they become temporally classified as disturbed b. situational variables are conducive to violence c. they are encouraged to display their true emotional content d. they are feeling grumpy or out-of-sorts with the other person
According to Sigmund Freud and his followers, what is the most significant event that occurs during the anal stage of psychosexual development?
a) The child is toilet trained. b) The child discovers his/her genitals. c) The child develops sexual feelings toward the parent of the other sex. d) The child has nightmares that reflect the development of sexual feelings.