What is the Hawthorne effect?

a. Researcher bias when interpreting results of data collection
b. People acting according to what they believe to be true
c. Subjects of research altering their behavior if they know they are being studied
d. Believing something will happen actually causing it to happen


c

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a. smaller in size b. the same in size c. larger in size d. double in size

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Social learning theory views identity as a. the result of shaping oneself in response to the expectations of others

b. the result of the struggle with the unconscious. c. the product of genetics. d. the product of "I and the Me."

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Research into gay and lesbian households has revealed that:

a. fewer children live in female homosexual families than in male homosexual ones b. growing up in a gay or lesbian family does not have a negative influence on child development c. more children live in male homosexual families than in females ones d. higher levels of child maladjustment are found in gay and lesbian families

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According to most research, which group most often emerges as victims of family violence?

(a) children
(b) men
(c) elderly men and women
(d) women

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