Suppose that you are a research participant in a laboratory study that is looking at fear and social support. The researcher shows you an extremely scary movie and then asks you whether you feel like talking to anyone (and if so, who) once the movie is over. Although you are in a laboratory setting the whole time, which does not resemble "real life" at all, you become engrossed in the procedures
of the study and almost forget that you are in a study. Thus, in your experience, this study is ____.
a. low in experimental realism and low in mundane realism
b. low in experimental realism and high in mundane realism
c. high in experimental realism and low in mundane realism
d. high in experimental realism and high in mundane realism
C
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a. pituitary gland b. adrenal medulla c. amygdala d. hippocampus
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a. confirmation bias. b. overreaching bias. c. publication bias. d. enterprise bias.