Juanita, a researcher at a pharmaceutical company, is assessing the effects of an experimental drug on lever pressing behavior in laboratory rats. For this study, what type of variable is the experimental drug?
a. Confound variable
b. Experimental variable
c. Independent variable
d. Dependent variable
Ans: C
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a. they are involved in making conscious judgments about experiences. b. they evaluate experiences and express and in terms of like or dislike, pleasantness or unpleasantness, stimulation or dullness. c. they remain submerged in the personal unconscious. d. they do not use the processes of reason to evaluate experiences.
The findings of Friesen's study of spontaneous expressions showed that universal, biologically innate emotional expressions can interact with culturally defined rules of display to produce appropriate emotional expressions
a) True b) False
If you know Ricardo's IQ score, how easily could you predict his specific academic performance?
A. very easily-there is strong correlation between IQ and academic performance B. very easily-there is moderate correlation between IQ and academic performance C. it would be tricky-there is no correlation D. difficult-there is moderate correlation between IQ and academic performance
Which perspective is not really a systemized school of thought, and instead is more like a set of attitudes that emphasizes the individual's quest for meaning and personal responsibility for choices?
a. existential b. cognitive c. psychodynamic d. behavioral