If you were interested in identifying the precise psychological mechanisms behind a well-documented phenomenon (e.g., the connection between heat and aggression), you would probably be better off conducting:
A) a laboratory experiment
B) a field experiment
C) a non-experimental laboratory study
D) a passive observational study
A
You might also like to view...
Chapter 2 discussed two related topics, called change blindness and inattentional blindness. According to this discussion,
a. we need to monitor our environment more carefully, so that our perception is more accurate. b. in reality, these cognitive errors can be traced to strategy that makes sense in the real world. c. both of these topics reflect a basic deficit in object recognition. d. both of these topics can be traced to overactive bottom-up processing.
Martha trains her cat Whiskers to salivate to the sound of a bell. She rings the bell every fifteen minutes and doesn't follow it with food for Whiskers. It salivates less and less and finally stops salivating at the sound of the ringing bell. A week later, she finds Whiskers salivating to the sound of a ringing bell. Which of the following terms explains this response?
a. Counterconditioning b. Instinctive drift c. Spontaneous recovery d. Stimulus discrimination
Alice has a secondary attachment to her older sister Karen. Karen spends a great deal of time caring for Alice. When Alice gets scared or distressed,:
a. she is likely to seek comfort from her mother b. she is likely to seek comfort from her sister. c. she is likely to be confused as to whom to seek comfort from. d. she is likely to seek comfort from no one.
__________ refers to how one feels about their self-descriptions or representations
Fill in the blanks with correct word