Self-recognition is not influenced by sociocultural factors
Indicate whether this statement is true or false.
Answer: False
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a. right to privacy. b. full disclosure. c. voluntary participation. d. protection from harm.
A researcher was interested in the effects of mood on aggression. She decided to see how receiving an insult or a compliment affects aggression, and she measured aggression by having participants administer small shocks to another participant. The researcher found that participants in the insult condition were more aggressive than those in the compliment condition. One of her colleagues reads
about this research and voices concern that people in the insult condition may have been more naturally aggressive than people in the compliment condition, causing the differences observed by the researcher. This concern about pre-existing differences between participants in the two conditions would only be valid if participants were not a. a representative sample of the population. b. randomly assigned to the condition. c. randomly selected from the population. d. informed that they were involved in a correlational study.
To attempt to discover why some adolescents begin using drugs and alcohol, a social psychologist would most likely study the ____.?
a. ?effects of peer pressure and the influence of media role models on adolescents' decision-making processes b. ?internal conflicts and struggles within substance-abusing adolescents c. ?chromosomal pattern of substance abusers to determine if there is a genetic predisposition to substance abuse d. ?personality profile of adolescents engaged in substance abuse
While at the bookstore, you listen in on an author speaking to a crowd of fans about her research and experience working with color in the clothing industry. She talks about the biology behind color, including how our eyes have thousands of receptors that are each sensitive to a different range of light wavelengths. As she continues, you realize she is explaining the ____ theory of color
vision.? a. ?trichromatic b. ?synesthetic c. ?gate-control d. ?opponent-process