Jeremy agrees to participate in a psychology experiment and when he arrives for the study, he is greeted by a very serious experimenter wearing a white lab coat carrying a clipboard
As he enters the laboratory room, Jeremy notes some rather intimidating looking equipment and concludes that he will be experiencing some unpleasant conditions in the study. These kinds of clues are referred to as
a. demand characteristics.
b. interobserver reliability.
c. continuous measures.
d. ordinal scales.
a
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When children and adolescents mimic a previous suicide or imitate the suicide of a celebrity or close friend, this is considered a ____
a. "copy cat" suicide c. "bullycide" b. "black box" warning d. correlate of suicide
If the null hypothesis of an experiment is true
a. The means of each of the conditions would be essentially the same b. The variance of each of the conditions will differ from each other c. The means of the conditions will differ from each other d. The variability of the groups will correspond to the variability of the population
"All or none" is the principle stating that
a. a neuron either fires or does not fire b. a neuron fires at full strength or not at all c. all the dendrites must be receiving messages telling the neuron to fire or it will not fire at all d. all somas must be receiving messages telling the neuron to fire or it will not fire at all e. all neurotransmitters must be released at one time, or none will be released at all.
The basis of attribution theory, which suggests that we try to understand behaviors of ourselves or others by attributing them to internal or external causes, was formulated and proposed by __________
a. Stanley Milgram b. Fritz Heider c. Solomon Asch d. Thomas Merton