You are doing an experiment on the effects of traumatic information on memory. You test participants on Monday. Tuesday, there is a large storm and many participants in your study must evacuate their homes temporarily
You then test these same participants the next week on Monday. The results you get:
a) will be more valid as participants actually experienced a trauma.
b) will not be accurate as the reactions to the storm would be a confound.
c) will have high internal validity.
d) will be easy to interpret.
b
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Studies on the cultural differences in parental tolerance for under- or overcontrolled behavior suggest that __________.
A. these different styles can produce different rates of problem behaviors in different cultures. B. parental styles make no difference in rates of different behavior problems-they seem to be primarily genetic. C. parental styles make no difference in rates of different behavior problems-they seem to be independent of culture. D. all cultures feel the same about bringing their children for treatment, regardless of the type of behavior problem.
Cocaine increases which two chemical messengers?
a. noradrenaline and dopamine b. acetylcholine and THC c. histamine and phosphene d. RNA and serotonin
The Swiss scientist who emphasized that infants are active learners and that early learning is based on sensory and motor skills was:
Noam Chomsky. Eleanor Gibson. Sigmund Freud. Jean Piaget.
Research by Juni, Masling, and Brannon on high oral types found that:
a. people high in orality used greater physical contact as a means of helping others solve a problem than people low in orality b. people low in anal eroticism used more physical contact as a means of helping others solve a problem than people high in anality c. vain people used less physical contact as a means of helping others solve a problem than people low in vanity d. people high in anal eroticism used more physical contact as a means of helping others solve a problem than people low in anality