Which of the following is not a reasonable criticism of the Stanford University prison study?
a. All of the participants were younger than 30 years old.
b. Lack of random assignment made it possible that the individuals assigned to be guards were generally moresadistic
c. Participants were not real prisoners and guards, so their behavior may not be representative.
d. Some of the participants endured pain and suffering, making the study ethically questionable.
b
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Which theory of emotion proposes that stimuli cause physiological changes in our bodies and emotions result directly from those physiological changes?
A) Cannon-Bard B) James-Lange C) two-factor theory of emotion D) emotional dialect
In a __________ research design, each participant is used as his or her own control, perhaps by having his or her behaviors compared before and after receiving a treatment
FIll in the blank with correct word.
According to the levels-of-processing model, we are most likely to remember information that we process at a ________level
a. deeper b. medium c. shallower d. personal e. any of these, depending on the information
A researcher in the area of IQ wishes to measure a sample of children using
the WISC III. The standard deviation on the WISC-III is 15. How large a sample should be selected if the researcher wishes to be . 99 accurate to within 5 IQ points? What will be an ideal response?