In an experiment examining the effects of background noise on people's ability to understand a verbal message, one group of participants is given a comprehension quiz after listening to a passage being read to them with no background noise. A week later, the same group of participants is given a comprehension quiz after listening to a passage being read to them with 60 decibels of conversation as background noise. This is an example of a ____ design.
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Trudy has just begun pairing a puff of air to the eye with a buzzer in the animal she is conditioning. The animal is in the _______ stage.
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According to Quoidbach et al. (2010, 2015), which of the following is true of materialists?
A. They are more likely to engage in ecologically beneficial activities than non-materialists. B. They tend to savor life's simpler pleasures less. C. They have many close, fulfilling relationships. D. They report a negligible gap between what they want and what they have.
Which statement is supported by research on emotional self-regulation?
A. Compared with North Americans, Japanese and Chinese adults discourage the expression of strong emotion in babies. B. Beginning in infancy, girls have a harder time regulating negative emotion than boys. C. By the second year, toddlers are quite skilled at using language to manage their emotions. D. Parents imitate their babies' displays of negative emotion more often than displays of positive emotion.
In an experiment, researchers, some of whom were dressed
poorly and others well-dressed, asked people in bakeries for a pastry while claiming they did not have enough money to pay for it. These researchers were studying the a. difference between achieved roles and ascribed roles. b. effects of social status in society. c. impact of social roles on prosocial behavior. d. dimensions of group structure.