A psychologist wants to measure the effects of a town's media campaign on cigarette smoking rates in its residents. The psychologist decides to compare the rates of smoking in the town and a neighboring town both before and after the media campaign. She observes that the town that instituted the media campaign has a larger reduction in smoking than the neighboring town. The major disadvantage of this study is the inability to determine:
What will be an ideal response?
whether the smoking campaign was responsible for the increased reduction in smoking
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Evolutionary accounts of aggression emphasize the
a. role of aggression in securing food and land. b. contribution of genetics and hormones to aggressive behavior. c. importance of intrapsychic conflict in aggressive behavior. d. role of aggression in securing a mate.
Compared to people with an external locus of control, people with an internal locus of control tend to:
A. develop fewer psychosomatic symptoms B. think the world is a hostile place that one must learn to escape from internally C. believe more that fate plays a bigger role in their lives D. be Type A people
Your text's discussion of false memories leads to the conclusion that false memories
A. arise from the same constructive processes that produce true memories. B. occur for details but not for entire events. C. occur in laboratory settings but do not occur in real-world circumstances. D. do not occur for all people but rather are experienced by suggestible or inattentive people.
The ____, passed in 1974, represents one of the first serious attempts to build a comprehensive system of research ethics in the United States
a. National Research Act b. Declaration of Helsinki c. Tuskegee Code d. Kefauver-Harris Amendments