If a psychologist tests whether a new teaching method is more effective than the old one, the research hypothesis is that
A) the new teaching method is more effective than the old teaching method.
B) the old teaching method is more effective than the new teaching method.
C) there is no difference in effectiveness of the old and new teaching methods.
D) there is a difference in effectiveness between the two methods, but no prediction is made.
A
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a. animals b. objects c. television d. stuffed animals
Regarding attitudes, which of the following statements is FALSE?
a. Attitudes are acquired from a variety of sources in the social environment. b. Genetic factors are less important determinants of attitudes than environmental factors. c. Attitudes are more strongly linked to behaviors when the attitude can be readily recalled from memory. d. Attitudes are not especially strong predictors of behavior. e. Twin studies suggest that people inherit particular genes for particular attitudes.
Marta has come to halfway believe the stereotypes applied to her by a group of her classmates and also worries about how she will appear to this group when she attends the class party. Marta is exhibiting
a. ethnocentrism. b. a social dominance orientation. c. a self-stereotype. d. dogmatism.
Fred, who never was a skinny man, also suffered from cocaine addiction. After deciding to clean up his life, he enrolls in an outpatient clinic, where he is treated with a drug that blocks dopamine release to help him get off of cocaine. What surprising side effect might he also see?
A. increase in hunger B. increase in weight C. decrease in weight D. increase in thirst