Psychologists are limited in the conclusions that can be drawn from case studies because case studies
a. lack cultural relativity.
b. are subject to the Barnum effect.
c. lack formal control groups.
d. tend to create negative correlations.
C
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Which of the following refers to the tendency that some people have to simultaneously (a) hold egalitarian values, and (b) experience negative feelings, or feelings of disease, when interacting with minority groups?
a. aversive racism b. social dominance orientation c. contact hypothesis d. discontinuity effect
In the "War of the Ghosts" experiment, participants' reproductions contained inaccuracies based on
A. narrative rehearsal. B. source misattributions. C. cultural expectations. D. shallow processing.
A technique for gathering scientific information by unobtrusively watching people in their normal environments is termed:
A) the case study approach. B) descriptive statistics. C) naturalistic observation. D) experimentation.
Barbara was asked whether Americans bought more American-made cars than foreign-made cars. To come up with an answer, Barbara based her opinion on the cars her friends drove. What is this decision process indicative of?
a. representative heuristics c. basic heuristics b. availability heuristics d. anchoring and adjustment heuristics