The greatest advantage of the naturalistic observation method is that it
a. can tell us what people do in everyday life.
b. is easily conducted in a laboratory setting.
c. readily leads to the discovery of cause-effect relationships.
d. untangles age effects from cohort effects.
a
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a. cultural deficit c. cultural compatibility b. deficit compatibility d. culturally different
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a) hair cells lining the nose b) receptors that directly receive molecules c) vaporized molecules that go straight to the brain d) olfactory bulbs that store odor molecules and pump them to the limbic system
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A) The consequences of a disease B) The determination of causality C) The controllability of a disease D) The time line for the treatment
Knowledge of the placement of participants into the various conditions of an
experiment could lead to results based on subjective expectations rather than objective, as well as accurate results. What is this called? A) Placebo effect B) Double blind C) Single blind D) Experimenter bias