At a research meeting, you hear a graduate student report findings that racism no longer exists, since in his survey he found that no one admitted to being a racist
What would you suggest to this graduate student as a good course of action?
A) Confirm his findings in a second sample.
B) Publish his findings immediately.
C) Use a different self-report measure of racism to corroborate his findings.
D) Get a covert measure to corroborate his findings.
Answer: D
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A) catharsis B) classical conditioning C) regularization D) observational learning
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a. increase his chances for treatment success when the therapist is positive. b. account for treatment setbacks or ongoing dejection. c. account for successful treatment if he has enough medication. d. are unrelated to the success of his treatment.
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a. higher than normal. b. lower than normal. c. moderate. d. almost zero.