Loftus and Palmer's "car-crash films" experiment described in the text shows how a seemingly minor word change can produce a change in a person's memory report. In this study, the MPI was (were) the word(s)
a. "fast."
b. "smashed."
c. "miles per hour."
d. "car crash."
b
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a. Herpes b. Gonorrhea c. Syphilis d. Chlamydia
Because Jim was interested in the nest building behavior of wrens, he went into the field to observe them. Jim was using the _____ method of research
a. case study b. laboratory observational c. naturalistic observational d. correlational
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That Dr. Tranh finds the process so routine most clearly reflects the development of a(n): a) mental set. b) prototype. c) script. d) algorithm.
Whenever Ho is rejected, then
a. it is possible to commit the Type 1 error b. it is impossible to commit the Type 1 error c. the only possible error is sampling error d. none of these