The treatment which is controlled by the researcher is called the:
a. dependent variable c. independent variable
b. confounding variable d. control variable
C
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A. Babies mimic the sucking motion when at rest or during sleep. B. As a baby outgrows colic, their rooting reflex also strengthens. C. Babies who cry incessantly or become easily agitated typically show a weak rooting reflex at birth. D. Sucking on a pacifier decreases crying and agitated movement in hungry neonates.
Which of the following is NOT true about college drinking?
a. Students spend more on money for alcohol than the costs of their books. b. Of 119 schools surveyed, 81% of the students drank. c. Thirty percent reported engaging in binge drinking to get drunk. d. Forty percent of college students reported drinking five or more alcoholic drinks at one sitting at least monthly.
Deferred imitation means:
a. the child can mimic only within five seconds what he/she has seen. b. children can imitate from the moment they are born. c. a child has a mental representation in mind for a behavior observed potentially long before the behavior is imitated. d. imitation is a more automatic process than was assumed in the past.
There is a powerful scene in the classic film, To Kill a Mockingbird; Atticus Finch, a small town lawyer, is on the courthouse steps standing guard over Tom Robinson,
an African-American prisoner whom he is defending. A mob of townspeople and local farmers approaches the courthouse, demanding that Atticus turn over Robinson; they are intent on administering their own form of vigilante justice. Suddenly, Atticus's young daughter Scout steps forward. She doesn't understand what's about to happen, and begins to address people in the crowd, "Hey, Mr. Cunningham. How's your boy? I like Walter, but I haven't seen him in awhile." As Scout innocently addresses a number of individuals in the crowd, they begin to leave one by one, until the whole lynch mob is disbanded. Scout's behavior disrupts the ________ that might have led to a lynching. a. norm of moral responsibility b. social facilitation c. social loafing d. deindividuation