Ryan, a professional bass fisherman, is trying to determine
which lure is most effective on Wakeby Lake: the plastic worm he normally uses or the new minnow-style lure he bought yesterday. Based on this scenario, what would constitute the control?
A) The new minnow lure
B) The plastic worm
C) Neither the minnow lure nor the plastic worm
D) There is no control in this particular experiment.
Answer: B
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a. anticipation. b. affective forecasting. c. terror management. d. dialecticism.
Students conducted a naturalistic observation to study whether people arriving at the library alone would be more likely to hold the door open for a person coming in immediately after them than would people who arrived in pairs. The students made their observations looking through the window of a classroom building across from the library. They chose this position for observation to avoid the potential problem of
A. demand characteristics. B. observer bias. C. nonrepresentative sampling. D. reactivity.
Which of the following is the most accurate statement regarding the relationship between negative emotions and memory?
a. ?Such emotions can enhance or impair memories. b. ?Negative emotions can lead to disruption of retrieval cues. c. ?Such emotions are almost guaranteed to lead to source monitoring errors. d. ?Negative emotions enhance the encoding specificity effect.
Which of the following are the two primary categories of models in cognitive psychology?
a. Structural models and process models b. Biological models and psychological models c. Interpersonal models and intrapersonal models d. Psychodynamic models and behavioral models