Margaret Intons-Peterson manipulated experimenter expectancies by suggesting to one group of experimenters that task performance would be expected to be better for perceptual tasks than for imaginal ones. She suggested the opposite outcome to a second group of experimenters. When experimenters expected imaginal performance to be better than perceptual performance, participants responded
accordingly, and vice versa. Thus, experimental participants performing visualization tasks may be responding in part to the ____ of the task.
a. perceptual difficulty
b. matching variables
c. demand characteristics
d. cognitive complexity
c
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a. True b. False
Chris is studying computer lab culture in post-secondary schools. He goes to the local 24-hour lab and observes four times a week for an academic year. He occasionally seeks some information from those in the lab about what they are doing via informal interviews. Chris is best illustrating
a. qualitative research. b. convergent parallel research. c. exploratory sequential research. d. explanatory sequential research.
Some historians are questioning whether desegregation has weakened the social and academic support that black students once received within their communities
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
Factor analysis is used only to validate theories of intelligence.