Experimenter Effect

What will be an ideal response?


tendency of the experimenter's expectations for a study to unintentionally influence the results of the study

Psychology

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The child's peers who match his or her age tend to

a. exert superordinate commanding influences on others. b. be subordinate and submissive to others. c. share equal-status contacts with one another. d. develop mean-world beliefs.

Psychology

Clay has played professional soccer for seven years and is easily able to tune out the sound of the crowd and all other irrelevant sensory information during the game

Bruce is a rookie and is often distracted by what his opponents are saying and the mood of the crowd. Clay and Bruce are showing differing levels of A) absolute thresholds. B) parallel processing. Incorrect. Parallel processing refers to the ability to attend to many sense modalities simultaneously. C) selective attention. D) top-down processing.

Psychology

According to the text, what percentage of fathers in the United States and the United Kingdom experience postpartum depression?

20% 15% 4% 1%

Psychology

Rafael is concerned with the idea of inherent morality and wants to research ethical indicators present in toddlers and babies

He knows that many other social psychologists have also been concerned with this topic, so Rafael focuses on analyzing previously published research on this topic in order to find repeating patterns among results and also to see if there are any gaps in the body of research. Rafael is focused on ________. a) the survey method b) theory c) mediating variables d) a meta-analysis

Psychology