Your psychology professor is conducting research and desperately needs more participants because the existing subjects keep running from the building screaming! She tells the class that everyone must be a subject to get a grade in the class and that there are no exceptions. In terms of ethical treatment of research subjects, her policy would
a. violate the informed consent concept of
competence.
b. be acceptable as long as her procedures were presented to the institutional review board.
c. be acceptable if she carefully explained the experiment to each participant and did allow participants to quit if they were uncomfortable during the procedure.
d. violate the informed consent concept of volunteerism.
d
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A. psychoses and neuroses B. conscious and unconscious C. mental and psychological D. objective and projective
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Fill in the blank(s) with correct word
Regarding the development of schizophrenia, which of the following statements is FALSE?
a. The older a man is when he fathers a child, the more likely it is that his child will develop schizophrenia because of genetic mutations in aging male reproductive cells. b. The risk of developing schizophrenia is about as high for the fraternal twin of a schizophrenic as for a child with one schizophrenic parent. c. When children of schizophrenic parents are raised away from their chaotic home environment, they are significantly less likely to become psychotic. d. Schizophrenia is more common among close relatives and tends to run in families.
What is one explanation for why Lashley failed at finding the engram?
A. He used poor surgical methods. B. Not all memories are physiologically the same. C. The engram is continually changing location in the cortex. D. Classical conditioning had not been discovered yet.