A researcher investigated whether a person's mood influences another person's mood. The researcher divided the participants into three groups. Participants in the first group interacted with a happy person. Participants in the second group interacted with a sad person. Participants in the third group interacted with an emotionally neutral person. After the interaction, the researcher measured how
happy the participants were. What are the conditions of the independent variable in this study?
What will be an ideal response?
Happy, sad, and neutral
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a. willed b. volitional c. ideo-motor d. voluntaristic
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Indicate whether this statement is true or false.
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the other begins prenatally rather than in the early years? a. Fetuses tend to suck their thumbs with one hand more than the other. b. Fetuses always use the hand that they later choose for their dominant hand at around age 3. c. Fetuses use the hand that is not crowded in the last trimester, the one that is easily accessible. d. Fetuses use the same hand in the womb as their biological mothers.
John Watson and B. F. Skinner emphasized the impact of rewards on the learning process, a process they called
A) retribution. B) reinforcements. C) accolades. D) corroboration.