Random assignment controls for individual differences by ______.

A. eliminating individual differences in all groups
B. removing individual differences in two or more groups
C. ensuring that individual differences in each group vary entirely by chance
D. fixing the probability that individual differences exist in each group


Answer: C

Psychology

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a. make familiar tasks easier but unfamiliar tasks more challenging. b. make both easy and difficult tasks easier. c. have no effect on easy tasks, but will make difficult tasks more challenging. d. have no effect on challenging tasks, but will make easy tasks easier.

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Which expression is consistent with the outgroup homogeneity bias?

a.  “They all look alike to me.”   b.  “We are all individuals who can’t be easily described.”   c.  “We are thrifty, but they are miserly.”   d.  “You got to see ‘em to believe ‘em”   e.  “He is just like all the rest.”

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James Nairne would say that effective encoding of memory is based on which of the following?

A. Rehearsal B. Survival C. Specificity D. Mood

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Behaviorists believe that conditioning principles can be examined to understand the processes that shape our personalities

Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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