When your doctor asks you whether you have been sleeping well at night, the doctor is gathering information by using the ____
a. method of authority
b. rational method
c. empirical method
d. method of intuition
a
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A. cancer B. accidents C. suicide D. homicide
Dr. Ikeda conducts an experiment on the effect of physical beauty on being hired for a job, and has both attractive and unattractive individuals apply for the same job. However, he fails to control for the possibility that the attractive applicants have better resumes. In this case, the quality of the resumes is considered a(n) ____
a. ?confounding variable b. ?dependent variable c. ?experimental variable d. ?independent variable
Why, according to research by McGuire (1964), does attitude inoculation work to increase resistance to subsequent persuasion attempts? Attitude inoculation
a. generates psychological reactance, so people ignore subsequent messages. b. encourages people to think about the issues and to generate counterarguments. c. raises self-esteem, and thus makes people less vulnerable to later persuasion attempts. d. increases fear, and thus make people less responsive to logical arguments.
The hormone that stimulates production of sperm and maturation of ova is
a. follicle-stimulating hormone b. luteinizing hormone c. estrogen d. testosterone