A researcher wants to study the relationship between stress and an employee's ability to perform at work. However, he finds that there is no direct relationship between the two. He also notices that the presence of a supervisor in the environment establishes a relationship between stress and the employee's ability to perform. In this scenario, the supervisor's presence is acting as a ________variable.
A. situational
B. confounding
C. participant
D. dependent
Answer: B
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a. two b. three c. four d. five
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A) Amniotic fluid B) Brain weight C) Fetal length D) Neuron production
Tim, a rejected child, was knocked over when a classmate tripped over a stick on the ground. Tim thinks that his classmate intended to hurt him. As a result of this mistaken attribution, Tim is likely to retaliate with a negative behavior. We can classify Tim as
a. aggressive. c. passive. b. proactive. d. active.
Auditory or visual information that people do not pay attention to
a. cannot affect behavior. b. usually does not enter consciousness. c. does not affect verbal processing. d. normally produces only episodic memories. e. is easily encoded from sensory memory into short-term memory.