A researcher tells stories at a party describing the behavior of individual participants in his or her research study. Which ethical principle is being compromised?
a. no harm
b. informed consent
c. confidentiality
d. anonymity
c
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Participants in a study described as investigating "aspects of intelligence and social awareness" completed "intelligence problems" in small groups. Without their knowledge, half of the students were given easy problems, and half were given difficult problems. The students with easy problems finished easily in the allotted time, while the remaining students struggled. After the intelligence problems, the investigators asked students to complete social comparison measures (i.e., how they rate themselves compared to others). Participants in this study
A. experienced minimal risk, because students take tests as part of their everyday life. B. were "at risk," because of the deception. C. did not face social risk because they were anonymous. D. did not require debriefing because the investigator described the purpose of the study.
The use of a competing response probably serves the same functions for habits, tics and stuttering
a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false
“Attitudes are more likely to bias encoding and interpretation when the attitudes are easy to retrieve from memory.” This hypothesis is corroborated by which of the following studies?
a. Houston and Fazio (1989) b. Vallone, Ross, and Lepper (1985) c. Hastorf and Cantril (1954) d. none of these
Because of the way in which information is encoded in long-term memory, if you are attempting to recall the word bed from a memorized list, which word are you most likely to mistakenly say?
a. red b. table c. bread d. sleep