Discuss the experimental importance of moral dilemmas in studying emotions.
What will be an ideal response?
Moral dilemmas pose theoretical situations to participants that can be used to determine which brain areas respond to different elements of the task. For instance, when given a choice that largely removed the participant from action (such as choosing whether a train should hit one person versus five people), individuals can logically respond that saving five people would outweigh saving the life of one person. However, if placed in a situation in which the participant would have to actively push someone in front of the train to save five people, a different response in the brain is activated.
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a. The data are interval or ratio. b. The underlying distributions are bell-shaped. c. The observations are independent. d. There is no homogeneity of variance.
When people make external, unstable attributions for others' successes or failures, these attributions tend to concern questions of ____
a. ability or talent b. effort or hard work c. ease or difficulty of the task d. luck or chance
What is a disadvantage of the High Amplitude Sucking paradigm to assess infant hearing?
A) It cannot be used with young infants (e.g., 1-4 months). B) It is difficult for some infants to reach the habituation threshold that is assessed by observing declines in infant sucking. C) It allows one to test subtle differences in different tones, but not differences in human speech sounds. D) Recent research has documented it is not a reliable or valid paradigm for most infants.
When a researcher creates two groups, varies a condition, and records whether varying the condition had any effect on behavior, the researcher is conducting a(n)
a. naturalistic observation b. correlational study c. comparative case study d. experiment