You are a taking part in a survey that asks about your attitudes toward the physical punishment of children. Even though you believe that spanking is sometimes necessary, you answer that you are opposed to any sort of physical punishment
Which of the following terms best describes why you answered the way that you did?
A) Social desirability
B) Experimenter bias
C) Randomness
D) Sample representation
A
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a. mind-body connection. b. locus of control. c. general adaptation syndrome. d. defense mechanism.
Inhelder and Piaget gave their research subjects the "pendulum problem" to assess
a. their level of social cooperation while solving it. b. how self-esteem predicts their persistence at the task. c. their ability to apply inductive scientific reasoning. d. how success/failure at a previous task affected their interest in solving.
Forster, Lee, and Horowitz (2003) found that mock jurors who received instructions at the beginning rather than after the trial
A. reported greater satisfaction with their trial experiences. B. reported less satisfaction with their trial experiences. C. recalled and used more of the evidence. D. recalled and used less of the evidence.
Depressed people tend to explain the negative events that happen to them, with a(n)
__________ style of attribution. a. apathetic b. situational c. narrow d. dispositional e. global