Research that is conducted with the goals of understanding phenomena and testing a theory is referred to as __________ research.
A. correlational
B. applied
C. basic
D. idiographic
C. basic
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The practice of psychosurgery such as prefrontal lobotomies, has its roots in the ____.?
a. ?implementation of the experimental method in physiology b. ?doctrine of the specific energies of nerves c. ?electrical stimulation method d. ?postmortem method e. ?extirpation method
A therapist working with child victims of sexual abuse is likely to see symptoms that most closely parallel ____ in some cases
a. bipolardisorder b. dissociative identitydisorder c. paraphilias d. posttraumatic stress disorder
What is the evidence to suggest that exposure to sex hormones in the womb affects sexual orientation??
a. ?Females exposed to higher than normal levels of male hormones in the womb develop masculinized external genitalia and report more same-sex sexual activity. b. ?Males whose mothers were on hormone replacement therapy while pregnant report more attraction to males than the general population. c. ?The testosterone hormonal patch used to stimulate sexual desire in females also leads to higher birth rates of babies who later identified themselves as lesbians. d. ?Women who took drugs to stimulate ovulation had sons who were more likely to experiment with same-sex activity.
The experiment by Braun, Ellis, and Loftus (2002) on the effect of a Disney advertisement on memory for visiting a theme park was done between subjects because
a. it would have taken too much time to run the same subjects in both conditions b. two condition experiments are always done between subjects c. if they experienced both conditions of the study they would no longer naive about the independent variable d. they were trying to rule out more than one alternative hypothesis