Dr. Morris is in the process of designing a series of experiments that will investigate the effects of a new drug on a rat's memory for learning a maze
Because of his experience with this drug when he worked for a pharmaceutical company, Dr. Morris feels that he might be biased in his thinking and worries that this bias might unfairly influence the outcome of the study. Consequently, Dr. Morris is concerned about his
a. inductive reasoning .
b. objectivity.
c. tenacity.
d. direct assessment.
b
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A. early and middle adolescence B. late adolescence C. emerging adulthood D. early adulthood
Rats drink a saccharin solution and then are injected with something that makes them slightly ill. They learn to avoid the saccharin solution. What is unusual about this type of learning?
a. Rats show no sign of learning until the taste-illness pairing has been repeated dozens of times. b. Rats learn even if the taste and illness are separated by hours. c. Rats show no indication of either stimulus generalization nor discrimination in this type of learning. d. Rats forget this type of learning unless they receive daily practice.
Kohlberg studied moral reasoning through the use of:
A. moral dilemmas B. conservation tasks C. telephone surveys D. observations of parent-adolescent interactions
The linguistic relativity hypothesis suggests:
a. the speed of language acquisition relates to the richness of language in the environment b. language influences thought and perception c. good language requires being informative, truthful, relevant, and clear d. language is highly correlated with intelligence