Dr. Park identified 20 restrictive eaters (people who constantly monitor and limit their caloric intake) and 20 matched control participants. She then manipulated whether each group of participants had or had not just consumed a high calorie milkshake prior to taking part in a "taste test" of chocolate chip cookies. She found that whereas the control participants ate fewer cookies than usual
after having just consumed the shake, the restrictive eaters actually ate more. Dr. Park's study is:
A) a person-by-treatment quasi-experiment
B) a natural experiment
C) a laboratory experiment
D) a clinical evaluation experiment
A
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a. internalization c. transcendence b. compensation d. personification
Darley and Gross (1983) conducted a study in which they asked participants to evaluate the intellectual ability of a nine-year-old named "Hannah.". Some participants were led to believe that she came from a high socioeconomic (SES) background? others were led to believe she came from a low SES background. Which statement about this study is accurate? a. Only for perceivers who actually met
the target (i.e., Hannah) in person did expectation influence perceptions. b. Perceivers' expectations determined the way they behaved toward the target, which in turn influenced thetarget's behavior. c. Perceivers' expectations led them to fail to notice clear limitations of the target's actual performance. d. Perceivers' expectations affected their perceptions of the target's performance, even when that performancewas identical across conditions.
Biofeedback has proven to be a useful technique for:
A) increasing resistance to infection. B) increasing aerobic capacity and lowering blood pressure. C) achieving relaxation and decreasing chronic pain. D) decreasing symptoms of depression.
Informally, we tend to place people into categories, such as the "executive type," the "athletic type," and the "motherly type.". If you tried to define these informal types, you would probably
a. evaluate them on their character. b. use cardinal traits to describe them. c. describe their temperaments. d. list a different collection of traits for each category.