If a psychology student wants to do research involving human participants, which of the following has the ultimate authority to approve, disapprove, or require modifications prior to the approval of the student's research?
A. the department chairperson
B. the university's Institutional Review Board (IRB)
C. the university's IACUC
D. the faculty sponsor of the research
B. the university's Institutional Review Board (IRB)
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Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
A correlation was computed between amount of exercise people do and people's overall happiness. A significant correlation was found, such that the more people exercise, the happier they are. What is the best conclusion to draw from this finding?
a. Exercise leads people to be happy. b. We have proved that people should exercise more. c. A positive relationship exists between exercise and happiness. d. A negative relationship exists between exercise and happiness.
According to the discussion of logical reasoning,
a. conditional reasoning does not seem to require the use of working memory. b. conditional reasoning is the one area in which negative information and positive information are equally easy to process. c. people usually perform better on conditional reasoning problems if the statements are concrete, rather than abstract. d. surprisingly, people actually have more trouble solving a concrete problem than an abstract problem.
Somatosensory information travels from the thalamus to which area of the cortex?
a. parietal lobe b. frontal lobe c. hippocampus d. limbic cortex