Which of the following is NOT one of the key characteristics of a true experiment?
a. The manipulation of a variable.
b. Holding everything constant apart from the variable being manipulated.
c. All participants experience all experimental conditions.
d. The measurement of changes caused by the manipulation of a variable.
c. All participants experience all experimental conditions.
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The technique that ensures each participant has an equal chance of being assigned to any of the conditions in the experiment is:
a. random assignment b. correlational assignment c. controlled assignment d. reactive assignment
Explanatory style concerns _____, whereas expressive style concerns _____
a. the ways we explain events; the ways we express our reaction to events b. humor vs. crying; optimism vs. pessimism c. way of coping; attributions d. how men cope; how women cope
Bowlby was inspired by Konrad Lorenz’s studies of __________
A) shyness B) imprinting C) modeling D) sociability
What did Wundt view as a reliable measure of the speed of a person’s conscious activity?
a. complications c. discriminations b. level of automaticity d. reaction time