The term ____ refers to the idea that people are distressed by loss of freedom or loss of options, and that they will seek to reclaim or reassert them
a. monitoring
b. reactance
c. self-regulation
d. status quo bias
B
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a. population. c. representative group. b. sample. d. none of these.
A fetish is a
A. source of dysfunction. B. attraction to nonconsenting individuals. C. attraction to inanimate objects. D. a sexual desire that dominates the personality.
What is one limitation of the ethnographic method?
A. Investigators' cultural values sometimes lead them to misinterpret what they see. B. It provides little information on how people actually behave. C. It requires technology such as surveillance cameras and one-way mirrors. D. It cannot provide information about the reasoning behind participants' responses.
A psychologist designs a study to investigate the effect of diaphragmatic breathing on test anxiety. After recruiting test-anxious subjects, the researcher splits the group so that two equivalent groups are created. One group is taught this method of
breathing and asked to use it before taking a verbal memory test, while the other group is not taught the technique. After scoring the tests and conducting a statistical test, the researcher finds that the group that received the training significantly outperformed the other group. In this design, the test scores for each group would be __________. A) an example of a correlational outcome B) the independent variable C) the dependent variable D) considered random