A team of researchers wants to test the hypothesis that drinking wine makes people like jazz more
They randomly assign college students who are 21 or over to one room in which they will drink wine and listen to jazz or to another room in which they will drink water and listen to jazz. It happens that the "wine room" has a big window with nice scenery outside, while the "water room" is windowless, dark, and dingy. The most serious flaw in this experiment is that it
a. is low in external validity.
b. is low in internal validity.
c. did not randomly select the participants from all college students in the country.
d. is low in psychological realism.
Answer: B
You might also like to view...
You have set aside two hours to study for an exam in this course, and you are currently deciding to review the new terms, writing down any terms that you cannot define. Which feature of Alan Baddeley's theory handles this planning activity?
a. the phonological loop b. the visuospatial sketchpad c. the episodic buffer d. the central executive
Based on twin studies, evidence regarding the influence on IQ scores indicates that:
A. 85% is due to genetics, and 15% is due to the environment B. 85% is due to the environment, and 15% is due to genetics C. 50% is due to genetics, and 50% is due to the environment D. neither genetics nor the environment is predictive of intelligence
A patient, Shane, tells his doctor, "Hen green the hey one." Shane's speech is fluent, but it makes no sense to the listener. Shane most likely has ______ aphasia.
A. Wernicke's B. Broca's C. Tan's D. Gage's
Supply side economics postulates that there is a tax policy between 0% and 100% that ______.
A. motivates people to work B. minimizes tax revenues C. stabilizes the economy D. benefits suppliers of goods