Suppose you are interested in how participants perform under different temperature conditions. You randomly select 30 participants and randomly assign them to work in one of three rooms. The rooms differ only with respect to temperature. You instruct all participants to solve the same jigsaw puzzle, and then you measure how long it takes each one to finish. In this research, the experimenter is

investigating whether

a. participants can solve a jigsaw puzzle in different rooms.
b. participants can solve a jigsaw puzzle under different temperature conditions.
c. the time required to solve a jigsaw puzzle depends on temperature.
d. temperature depends on the time required to solve a jigsaw puzzle.


C

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According to the typicality effect,

a. objects in a category have a family resemblance to one another. b. objects that are not typical stand out and so are more easily remembered. c. items that are high in prototypicality are judged more rapidly as being in a group. d. we remember typical objects better than non-typical objects.

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In addition to their physical health problems, preterm babies are difficult to raise because they

a. emit behaviors that aggravate their caregivers. b. habitually crawl away from adults, then get "lost.". c. rarely ever recover fully from their chronic diarrhea. d. hold their breath to gain resuscitative attention.

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_____ refers to the strong emotional reaction a patient has to the psychoanalyst, which demonstrates how the patient acts toward significant individuals in his/her life.

a) Flooding
b) Transference
c) The empty chair technique
d) Resistance

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